The Chicago Cubs went 61-101 in 2012, a .377 winning percentage — the second worst record in baseball. They scored 613 runs and allowed 759, a run differential of -146. The offence ranked 28th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.49 staff ERA was 25th of 30. Their 85 team wRC+ was 15% below league average — the worst in MLB. Starlin Castro led the position players at 3.5 WAR, and Jeff Samardzija the rotation at a 3.81 ERA.
The 2012 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the NL Central, 36 games back. They were as far as 37 games back on October 2. Their best month was July at 15-10, their worst August at 8-21. The longest runs were a 4-game winning streak from June 29 to July 2 and a 12-game losing streak from May 15 to May 27. They were 38-43 at home and 23-58 on the road, 15-27 in one-run games and 32-69 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 10-0 at the Brewers on June 5; the heaviest defeat, 17-1 against the Mets on June 27.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
8
15
.348
82
103
-21
May
10
17
.370
103
128
-25
June
10
17
.370
98
126
-28
July
15
10
.600
100
93
+7
August
8
21
.276
111
153
-42
Sept/Oct
10
21
.323
119
156
-37
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
38-43
.469
Road
23-58
.284
One-run games
15-27
.357
Extra innings
4-6
.400
Within the division
31-50
.383
Against .500+ clubs
32-69
.317
Decided by 5+ runs
15-27
.357
Last 10
2-8
.200
National League Central standings, 2012
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2012. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
35,590
35,461
25,891
42,292
Night
30
35,518
34,245
30,017
41,326
Day
51
35,632
35,837
25,891
42,292
Weekend
38
36,481
37,361
26,946
41,276
Weekday
43
34,802
34,064
25,891
42,292
On the road
81
32,486
30,743
13,101
46,882
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
37,121
May
14
37,461
Jun
11
38,086
Jul
12
36,596
Aug
16
33,373
Sep
12
32,560
Oct
3
30,980
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 159 completed games, 2012.
Regulation
2:56
149 games
All games
2:59
Extra innings
3:44
10 of them
Longest
4:09
2012-08-30, 9 inn
Shortest
2:05
2012-05-09
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
159
2:59
2:54
2:05
5:04
Regulation
149
2:56
2:52
2:05
4:09
Extra innings
10
3:44
3:39
3:03
5:04
Home
79
3:01
2:57
2:05
4:09
Road
80
2:57
2:52
2:08
5:04
Day
80
2:57
2:53
2:05
4:09
Night
79
3:01
2:56
2:25
5:04
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
13
2:57
May
14
2:58
Jun
11
2:55
Jul
11
2:49
Aug
15
3:03
Sep
12
3:24
Oct
3
2:50
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 176 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Chicago Cubs are 61-101, a .377 win rate, while their -146 run differential implies .403. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
