The Kansas City Royals went 81-81 in 2016, a .500 winning percentage — 16th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 675 runs and allowed 712, a run differential of -37. The offence ranked 23rd of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.21 staff ERA was 18th of 30. Their 88 team wRC+ was 12% below league average — 28th of 30 in MLB. Salvador Perez led the position players at 1.7 WAR, and Danny Duffy the rotation at a 3.51 ERA.
The 2016 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL Central, 13.5 games back. They spent 21 of 183 days in first place, led by as many as 2 games on May 31 and were as far as 13.5 games back on September 23. Their best month was August at 20-9, their worst July at 7-19. The longest runs were a 9-game winning streak from August 14 to August 23 and an 8-game losing streak from June 2 to June 10. They were 47-34 at home and 34-47 on the road, 23-25 in one-run games and 40-55 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 16-5 against the Tigers on June 18; the heaviest defeat, 13-0 against the Angels on July 26.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
12
11
.522
77
81
-4
May
17
11
.607
133
122
+11
June
13
14
.481
108
127
-19
July
7
19
.269
86
133
-47
August
20
9
.690
132
90
+42
Sept/Oct
12
17
.414
139
159
-20
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
47-34
.580
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
23-25
.479
Extra innings
7-3
.700
Within the division
46-30
.605
Against .500+ clubs
40-55
.421
Decided by 5+ runs
19-28
.404
Last 10
4-6
.400
American League Central standings, 2016
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American 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
31,577
31,502
22,615
40,030
Night
60
31,001
31,031
22,615
40,030
Day
21
33,220
33,613
25,830
39,782
Weekend
40
32,901
33,262
24,741
40,030
Weekday
41
30,285
30,763
22,615
39,782
On the road
81
27,980
28,790
11,131
47,125
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
33,097
May
14
31,828
Jun
13
34,223
Jul
13
32,015
Aug
13
28,460
Sep
15
30,596
Oct
2
29,022
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 162 completed games, 2016.
Regulation
2:56
152 games
All games
2:59
Extra innings
3:55
10 of them
Longest
4:34
2016-08-10, 14 inn
Shortest
2:15
2016-08-18
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
162
2:59
2:58
2:10
4:34
Regulation
152
2:56
2:56
2:10
3:51
Extra innings
10
3:55
3:56
3:05
4:34
Home
81
3:03
3:03
2:15
4:34
Road
81
2:56
2:54
2:10
4:28
Day
42
2:58
2:55
2:21
4:16
Night
120
3:00
2:58
2:10
4:34
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
11
3:01
May
14
3:05
Jun
13
3:00
Jul
13
2:58
Aug
13
3:07
Sep
15
3:06
Oct
2
2:54
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
Kansas City Royals are 81-81, a .500 win rate, while their -37 run differential implies .476. That is about 4 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
