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Data notes · where the numbers come from, and every place they deserve an asterisk

Every chart on this site is built from a league's own data feed, or, where a league publishes none, from a respected open data project: the NFL from FiveThirtyEight's openly licensed historical data before 1999, its week numbers checked against devstopfix from 1978, and from nflverse since, and the Premier League and the Championship from football-data.co.uk, with footballcsv and engsoccerdata filling in an earliest season each. Nothing here is scraped from websites or typed out of record books. That choice has a consequence: when a league's feed and the printed books disagree, this site sides with the league. Complete seasons are validated before publishing, against a league's own official standings wherever it publishes them, and for the two English divisions against the arithmetic of every table together with the published record. The handful of places where history needed repair or judgment are all listed here.

What the y-axis means

• The MLB, NBA, WNBA, and NFL charts plot games above .500. Games above .500 means wins minus losses. A team at 60-40 is twenty games above .500, so its line sits at +20. The difference is not divided by two. An NFL tie moves the line neither up nor down: ties count in the record and in winning percentage, not on this axis.
• The NHL chart plots points above a point-per-game pace. That is standings points minus games played. A team with 50 points through 40 games sits at +10. The zero line is a team earning exactly one point per game.
• The MLS, Premier League, and Championship charts plot points above draw pace. The arithmetic is the same: points minus games played. A draw pays one point, so the zero line is the pace of a side drawing every match. A club with 50 points through 30 matches sits at +20.

That is the whole definition. The longer answer, with a worked example from the 1951 pennant race and the difference between games above .500 and games behind, is its own page: What does games above .500 mean on a standings chart?

MLB 1901 to today · MLB Stats API

• Layouts are shown as they existed: before 1969 there were no divisions, so those charts show the two league pennant races. East and West arrive in 1969, the Central in 1994.
• The wild card cutoff line appears from the format's birth in 1994: one spot through 2011, two from 2012, three from 2022. It tracks the team holding the last spot each day, ranked by winning percentage; the league's official tiebreaker procedures are not applied to day-by-day ties, so on tied days the line can sit a team off from the official playoff picture.
• 1994 keeps its wild card race even though the strike cancelled the postseason and no wild card was ever awarded. The race was real while the season ran.
• A few seasons before 1963 differ from the Elias record books by a game or two. MLB's own feed counts ties, replayed games, and tiebreaker playoffs slightly differently than the books do. Nine team-seasons out of roughly 2,800 are affected.
• Tiebreaker playoff games count in the regular season, matching the feed: the 1962 Giants finish 103-62 here, including their three-game playoff over the Dodgers, where some books stop at the scheduled 162.
• Tie games (called for darkness in the years before ballpark lights) are not counted. They were replayed and the replay counts, which is how the official records treat them too. The 1927 Yankees are 110-44 here, as they should be.
• Charts show AL and NL play only. The Negro Leagues, which MLB recognizes as major leagues, keep their statistics in a separate part of MLB's data that this site does not yet chart.
• A suspended game counts on its original date once it finishes, so a day or two of recent history can quietly correct itself.
• Doubleheaders get a point each. Baseball is the only sport here that plays a team twice in a day, and a split doubleheader nets to zero, so a chart drawn one point per day would show a rest day where two games were actually played. Each game gets its own step instead, which is why an MLB line occasionally jogs up and straight back down inside a single date. The hover readout names the game, and teams that played once that day simply hold their position. Postponed games count on whichever day they are eventually made up.
• Interrupted seasons appear exactly as they happened: 1981 shows its mid-season strike gap, 1994 simply ends on August 11, and 2020 is 60 games long.
• MLB's feed sends a copyright notice with every response, and from August 2026 that notice is kept rather than dropped. Each season file picks it up the next time it is built, in a rights field, worded exactly as the feed worded it that day, so anyone who takes the numbers takes MLB's notice along with them, which is what a notice is for. Seasons that finished before the change and are latched against rebuilding will carry no field unless they are ever rebuilt. MLB's own terms are published at mlb.com/official-information/terms-of-use, and the notice itself cites gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt.

NHL 1917-18 to today · NHL API

• Points and records come from the league's own day-by-day standings, so every era's point rules (two for a win, one for a tie, the overtime-loss point after 1999, no ties after 2004) are the league's own arithmetic, not ours.
• Division and conference layouts are shown as they existed each season, from no divisions at all, to Canadian and American, to Adams and Patrick and Norris and Smythe, to today's four. The 2020-21 season's sponsor-branded division names appear here without the sponsors.
• The wild card cutoff line traces the pace of the team holding the last wild card spot in each conference, and exists only for seasons that used the format (2013-14 onward). 2020-21 has none: that season's playoffs took the top four from each division, so there was no wild card race to draw.
• 2004-05 does not exist. The whole season was lost to the lockout.
• The Montreal Wanderers' line in 1917-18 goes flat after six games: their arena burned down and the team folded. Lines that stop moving usually mean a franchise died mid-season.
• 2019-20 keeps its wild card races even though the league replaced that postseason with a 24-team format after the March stoppage. The races were real while the season ran.

NBA 1946-47 to today · NBA.com

• The NBA counts its BAA years (1946-1949) as its own history, and so does this site. The NBL, the other half of the 1949 merger, exists in no open data source and is not charted.
• The playoff cutoff line marks the pace of each conference's eighth seed, the final playoff spot of the sixteen-team era that began in 1983-84. Earlier seasons have no cutoff line, and in today's play-in years the line still tracks the eighth seed.
• A few early-era division tiebreaker games (1948-1957) appear in the league's game log but not in official standings. They are excluded here so final records match the official books exactly.
• The Baltimore Bullets folded fourteen games into the 1954-55 season, and the league struck those games from the record. This site follows the league: 1954-55 shows no Baltimore line at all.
• The 1953-54 season includes a forfeit (Milwaukee over Baltimore) that has no box score. It is credited at season's end, keeping the final records exact.
• The NBA Cup championship game does not count toward standings and is not charted. Cup group-stage games count, and are.

WNBA 1997 to today · NBA.com's WNBA statistics

• Three games exist in official standings but have no box score in the league's game log: awarded results in 2007 (New York over Connecticut) and 2009 (Los Angeles over New York), and the only true forfeit in league history, awarded to Washington in 2018 after the Aces' 26-hour travel ordeal. Each is credited at season's end, so final records match the official standings exactly, but those teams' daily lines run one game light from the true date until then.
• The playoff cutoff line follows the format of its era: the four best records league-wide in 1997 and 1998, three per conference in 1999, four per conference from 2000 through 2015, and the top eight league-wide since 2016.
• 2020 is the 22-game season played entirely in Bradenton, Florida.
• The Commissioner's Cup final does not count toward standings and is not charted. Cup group games count, and are.

NFL 1970 to today · FiveThirtyEight, devstopfix, and nflverse

• History starts in 1970, the AFL-NFL merger, so every season here is the modern NFL of two conferences. Game results from 1970 through 1998 come from FiveThirtyEight's openly licensed historical NFL data, with week numbers derived from the game dates; from 1978 they are checked against the public-domain devstopfix results set. 1999 onward comes from nflverse. Pro-Football- Reference, whose terms forbid automated access, was not used. Seasons before 1970, and the old AFL and AAFC, exist in these sources but are not charted yet.
• The chart moves one point per completed week, not per day, and a week joins the chart only when all of its games are final. Bye weeks show as flat line segments.
• Division and conference layouts are shown as they existed each season, through every expansion and realignment: the 26-team league of 1970, Seattle and Tampa Bay arriving in 1976 and swapping conferences in 1977, Carolina and Jacksonville in 1995, the Ravens in 1996, up to the 31-team, six-division setup of 1999 through 2001, before the 2002 realignment into eight divisions.
• The wild card cutoff line marks the last wild card spot in each conference: one per conference from 1970, two from 1978, three from 1990 through 2001, two from 2002 through 2019, three again since 2020. Teams are ranked by winning percentage alone; the league's full tiebreakers are not applied, so in tied weeks the line can sit a team off from the official playoff picture. The 1982 strike season is the exception: its walkout led to a one-off playoff that took the top eight per conference regardless of division, so that year is charted with no wild card line at all.
• 2001 shows its September 11 pause: the second week's games were postponed and played in early January as Week 17, so the chart skips a weekend after Week 1 and runs into January.
• Ties count as half a win in the winning percentage, the NFL's own method. The 2022 Bills-Bengals game, cancelled after Damar Hamlin's collapse, was never played: both teams simply finished with 16 games, exactly as the official standings record it.
• The 1982 and 1987 seasons carry a "Players' strike" band over the weeks the walkouts wiped out: two months in 1982, the single cancelled week of 1987 before the replacement games.
• Teams are shown as they were each season: the Houston Oilers, the Baltimore and then Indianapolis Colts, the St. Louis, Phoenix, then Arizona Cardinals, the Boston Patriots of 1970. When both Los Angeles teams shared the city from 1982 to 1994, the Raiders read RAI and the Rams RAM so the two never collide on the chart.
• Data comes from FiveThirtyEight's openly licensed NFL data for 1970 through 1998, with the devstopfix results set validating the week numbers from 1978, and the community-maintained nflverse project from 1999, with thanks to all three.

MLS 1996 to today · MLS stats API

• The 1996-1999 shootout era is charted with its real rules: no draws existed, a regulation win paid three points, a shootout win paid one. Shootout wins count as wins in the record, exactly as the league's own tables show them (the 1996 Galaxy won 19 games but only 49 points; the Mutiny won 20 and 58).
• Three wounds in the league's feed were repaired here, each verified against the official final table: a 2001 San Jose at New England game abandoned in a storm and recorded as a draw, a 2008 Houston 0-0 D.C. match missing from the feed entirely (the Hurricane Ike makeup), and four 2015 games the feed stamps 0-0 that actually had winners.
• Standings sort by total points, the way the league's own live table reads, with wins breaking a tie and points per game after that, so a club at level points on fewer games ranks higher. Two finished seasons are the exception and sort by points per game throughout: 2001, which the league cut short after September 11 with teams at different game counts, and 2020. Points per game was the league's own method for those uneven schedules.
• 2020 follows the league's own accounting: the MLS is Back tournament group games count toward standings, teams finished with anywhere from 18 to 23 games, and the chart shows two long flat stretches (the four-month spring shutdown, and the tournament's knockout rounds, which did not count).
• The Supporters' Shield view shows the single-table, league-wide race that decides the Shield.

Premier League 1992-93 to today · football-data.co.uk and footballcsv

• Results come from football-data.co.uk's freely published per-season files, which cover 1993-94 to today and update through the season, with thanks. The league's very first season, 1992-93, predates their coverage and comes from the footballcsv open data project instead. Five seasons were cross-checked club by club against a second source, the 2025-26 table was verified against the season's final press coverage, and famous seasons (the Invincibles' 90 points, Manchester City's 100, Derby's 11) are re-asserted every time the data rebuilds.
• The dashed line is not a playoff line here. It is the relegation line, the pace of the best team inside the drop zone, because in England the race at the bottom is the famous one. The line is era-true: the first two seasons had 22 clubs with three going down, in 1994-95 four went down to shrink the league to twenty, and from 1995-96 it is the modern three-from-twenty, so the line sits at 20th, then 19th, then 18th place.
• Every Premier League season scores three points for a win and one for a draw; the league has never used another scheme. Records read in the English order, wins-draws-losses, and the table sorts by points, then goal difference, then goals scored, the league's own tiebreakers.
• The chart's zero line is a point-per-game pace, a draw every game, the same convention as MLS.
• English football dresses overwhelmingly in two colors: fifteen of the fifty-one Premier League clubs wear red first and sixteen wear royal or navy blue, and a single 20-team table gives them nowhere to hide. Colors here spread each family across light and dark steps, a few clubs wear an official secondary instead (Brentford the bee amber, Stoke their navy trim), some wear a shifted shade of their own color so a rival's line stays tellable apart (Coventry a teal of their sky, Forest a lighter Garibaldi red), and one-season visitors wear hues English football never claimed, which is why Swindon are purple and Luton are green. All 941 pairs of clubs that ever shared a season were scored and the close ones were moved apart. That scoring is done in full color here. Twenty lines on one table is past the point where a palette can separate for a colorblind reader too, and chasing it was costing clubs their real colors without buying the separation: Villa's claret and Newcastle's black read almost identically to a colorblind eye and neither color is negotiable, though full color separates them easily. A few pairs still sit closer than the rest even in full color, the tightest of them Manchester United and Sheffield United, and Arsenal and Nottingham Forest. The end labels, the chips, and the hover readout always carry identity, and none of them uses color.
• How this chart knows a day is finished. The MLB and MLS charts check each day game by game and refuse to draw it until every game has finished, and the NFL does the same thing a week at a time. The Premier League charts lean on the source instead, because football-data lists only matches already played, which comes to the same thing and always has: the rebuild runs late in the UK evening, once the day's matches are done, and again at four in the morning to catch anything the source posted late. Were that file ever updated partway through a Saturday, an in-season day could appear a game light, and the next run would put it right. Finished seasons are not affected. The Championship works the same way, from the same files one division down. The NHL, NBA, and WNBA have no game-by-game check either, and lean on their own update times instead, which the All leagues section below sets out.
• 2019-20 is the longest season on the site's EPL chart: 353 days, with the spring COVID pause showing as a long flat stretch before the June restart.
• Points deductions are real and dated. Sources publish results, not punishments, so the five times the league docked points are written into the data by hand and the daily lines move the day each ruling landed: Middlesbrough drop three points in January 1997 (the deduction that relegated them), Portsmouth drop nine in March 2010, and in 2023-24 Everton fall ten in November, win four back on appeal in February, lose two more in April, while Forest drop four in March. Final tables here match the league's official ones, deductions and all.

EFL Championship 1992-93 to today · football-data.co.uk and engsoccerdata

• England's second tier, shown throughout under its current name, the EFL Championship. It was the Football League First Division until 2004 and the Football League Championship until 2016; the site uses today's name for every season and records the older ones here. It has been 24 clubs playing 46 games apiece in every season since 1992-93.
• Results come from the same football-data.co.uk files as the Premier League, one division down, covering 1993-94 to today and updating through the season. The very first season, 1992-93, is the one season the second tier has no football-data or footballcsv file for, so it comes from James P. Curley's engsoccerdata open dataset instead; the table it produces matches the record books club by club.
• There are three dashed lines here, not one, because the second tier runs three races at once: the automatic promotion pace at 2nd, the last play-off place at 6th, and the relegation line at the top of the drop zone. That relegation line is era-true. Three clubs go down in a normal season and it sits at 22nd, but in 1994-95 a fourth club went down, to shrink the Premier League above from 22 clubs to 20, and the line sits at 21st.
• Scoring, order, and tiebreakers match the Premier League: three points for a win, records read wins-draws-losses, and the table sorts by points, then goal difference, then goals scored. The chart's zero line is a point-per-game pace, a draw every game.
• Points deductions are the second tier's defining asterisk, far more common down here than in the top flight: clubs were docked points fifteen times across eleven seasons. Sources publish results, not punishments, so each is written in by hand with the date it took effect, and the daily line drops that day. The famous ones all land correctly. Derby lose twenty-one points in 2021-22, twelve for administration in September and nine more for accounting breaches in November, and finish bottom on 34. Wigan's twelve for administration in 2019-20 are held back to the final day, the point at which surviving on the pitch made the drop their penalty, and it relegates them. Sheffield Wednesday begin 2020-21 already twelve points down, win six back on appeal, and in 2025-26 lose eighteen to finish on nothing, the lowest total the division has ever seen. And in 2025-26 the punishments decided the drop: Leicester and West Brom were docked six and two, and Leicester went down having been safe on the field. Every complete season's final table is checked against the official record, champion, cutoff places, and every docked club's total, or the build refuses to publish.
• Colors are shared with the Premier League. The forty-five clubs that have played in both wear the same line in each, so a club you know from one is the same color in the other. Twenty-eight more that never reached the Premier League in this era are added just for this chart. Three clubs the top-flight palette had dressed in a free hue for a rare visit up (Swindon in purple, Luton in emerald, Barnsley in copper) are regulars down here, so they wear their own colors instead, red and orange and red. Twenty-four lines on a single table is more than color alone can carry, so a few clubs that only ever meet in this division wear a shifted shade to stay apart, every pair that shared a season was scored in full color, and the end labels, chips, and hover readout carry identity the rest of the way. Like the Premier League, and for the same reason, this chart does not claim to separate its lines for a colorblind reader.
• 2019-20 is the longest season anywhere on the site, 356 days, with the spring COVID pause showing as a long flat stretch before the June restart.

All leagues

• Colors and colorblindness, stated plainly. Every palette here is built so that no two teams meeting in a real season are hard to tell apart, and that check includes the common kinds of colorblindness. It is a best effort, and it is not perfect. How well it can work depends on how many lines share a chart: leagues with divisions or conferences keep that number low enough to reach, and colorblind separation stays a goal the palette is held to. The Premier League and the Championship put twenty and twenty-four clubs on one table, which is past the point where color alone can separate them for anyone, colorblind or not. Those two are built to separate in full color and stop there, rather than promise something they cannot deliver. On every chart in every league the end labels, the chips, and the hover readout carry identity, and none of them depends on color.
• How a day is known to be finished is not the same in every league, so here it is plainly. MLB and MLS go through a day game by game and refuse to draw it until every game has ended. The NFL does the same thing a week at a time: a week joins the chart only once all of its games are final. The NHL, NBA, WNBA, Premier League, and Championship have no game-by-game check. They take what the day's data holds and rely on the update running late enough that the games are over, which is the next note. During a season that means a team's record here can briefly trail the league's live table until the next update, and a day that ever landed a game light would put itself right on the next run.
• Days nobody plays still count. In MLB, MLS, the NBA, the WNBA, the Premier League, and the Championship, the date under the title keeps up with the calendar through a break: a league that last played Saturday reads "through Tuesday" on a quiet Tuesday, because nothing that happened since Saturday is missing. The moment a day has games, the chart waits for them again. For the two English leagues, whose results files list only matches already played, the date of the next game comes from the season fixture calendars published by fixturedownload.com, with thanks; only dates are read from them, and if that calendar is ever unreachable the header simply waits at the last matchday. The NHL already worked this way, and the NFL counts weeks, not days.
• Charts update nightly, shortly after the last game goes final. The North American leagues update in the small hours Pacific time. The two English leagues run on a UK clock instead, late in the evening and again at four in the morning, so a Saturday is drawn that same night rather than waiting on an American morning. The NBA and WNBA come from a home machine in the very early morning Pacific time, and on rare mornings can run a day behind.
• Teams are followed across moves and renames as franchises: Brooklyn flows into Los Angeles, the MetroStars into the Red Bulls, the Philadelphia A's through Kansas City and Oakland to today's city-less Athletics. Team names are shown as they were in each season.
• Line colors are each team's brand color where possible, but legibility wins ties: some teams wear an official alternate so rivals sharing a chart stay tellable apart, a few franchises change color at an era boundary (the Blackhawks wear black before 1994, the Jazz wear New Orleans purple in the 1970s, the SuperSonics wear green), and teams without a usable identity (the long-dead New York Americans, the brand-new Toronto Tempo) wear colors chosen purely so their lines can be followed. Modern palettes are validated for colorblind distinguishability; in deep-history charts crowded with defunct teams, the end-of-line labels and the hover readout carry the load.
• Historical teams otherwise wear their franchise's modern colors: the 1902 Athletics play in today's gold, Brooklyn in Dodger blue.
• What to call these charts: charts like these are often called bump charts, the season-long line races that show a whole league's standings climbing and falling over the year, and that is a perfectly good name for them. Strictly they are race charts, a close relative of the bump chart: a classic bump chart plots rank order, first place against second against third, while a race chart keeps the real distances, so a five game lead looks five games wide and the y-axis is the classic games above .500 view. They are drawn in the tradition of the pennant race charts newspapers once printed. One of the sites that inspired this one calls its charts runnings, a pun on standings worth preserving.
• Found something that looks wrong? It might be. The repairs on this page all started as a number that refused to match.

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