The Chicago Cubs went 103-58 in 2016, a .636 winning percentage — the best record in baseball. They scored 808 runs and allowed 556, a run differential of +252. The offence ranked the third best in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.18 staff ERA was the best. Their 114 team wRC+ was 14% above league average — the second best in MLB. Kris Bryant led the position players at 6.9 WAR, and Kyle Hendricks the rotation at a 2.13 ERA.
The 2016 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished first in the NL Central, 17.5 games clear. They spent 181 of 182 days in first place, led by as many as 19 games on September 26 and were as far as 1 game back on April 8. Their best month was August at 22-6, their worst July at 12-14. The longest runs were an 11-game winning streak from July 31 to August 12 and a 5-game losing streak from July 5 to July 9. They were 57-24 at home and 46-34 on the road, 22-23 in one-run games and 31-25 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-0 at the Reds on April 21; the heaviest defeat, 14-3 at the Mets on July 3.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
17
5
.773
136
57
+79
May
18
10
.643
139
90
+49
June
16
12
.571
140
99
+41
July
12
14
.462
114
119
-5
August
22
6
.786
143
85
+58
Sept/Oct
18
11
.621
135
105
+30
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
57-24
.704
Road
46-34
.575
One-run games
22-23
.489
Extra innings
9-4
.692
Within the division
50-25
.667
Against .500+ clubs
31-25
.554
Decided by 5+ runs
42-13
.764
Last 10
7-3
.700
National League Central standings, 2016
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
National League Central, 2016. 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
39,906
40,951
32,734
41,702
Night
36
39,537
40,592
34,680
41,616
Day
45
40,202
41,147
32,734
41,702
Weekend
38
40,484
40,955
34,007
41,702
Weekday
43
39,396
40,597
32,734
41,616
On the road
81
35,052
35,999
16,497
49,522
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
36,966
May
16
38,945
Jun
11
40,228
Jul
15
41,269
Aug
16
40,377
Sep
14
40,645
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 161 completed games, 2016.
Regulation
3:00
148 games
All games
3:06
Extra innings
4:10
13 of them
Longest
5:03
2016-08-29, 13 inn
Shortest
2:17
2016-07-17
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
161
3:06
3:01
2:10
5:03
Regulation
148
3:00
2:59
2:10
4:08
Extra innings
13
4:10
4:17
3:04
5:03
Home
81
3:04
3:00
2:17
5:03
Road
80
3:07
3:05
2:10
5:00
Day
73
3:04
3:00
2:17
4:54
Night
88
3:07
3:03
2:10
5:03
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
9
3:00
May
16
3:03
Jun
11
2:56
Jul
15
3:01
Aug
16
3:11
Sep
14
3:06
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 180 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 103-58, a .636 win rate, while their +252 run differential implies .665. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
