But since a single degree deviation of the face angle can cause you to miss a six foot putt, this data can help set you straight, once you figure out how to use it.

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Counting up wins in a season relative to the competition (how balanced was the league in each season?) yielded us a G-Score, as in "greatness, " a standard deviation measurement that shows the degree to which a team stood out among the field in a given year.

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Indulge me in a quick stat geek moment: the basic standard deviation formula marks greatness across eras by showing the degree to which you stand out from the crowd in a given year (a team with fewer patsies to beat up on will score higher than a team than a team feasting on more patsies, records being equal).

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We sought to account for the variations of baseball's different eras with the tried and true tool of standard deviation, which allowed us to look past raw win totals to measure the degree to which a team stood above the pack in a given season.

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