[Svartalfiar]

Only in the head of a baseball statistician would 25 games over .500 be considered 50 games over .500.

Depends on how you look at it. They have to lose 50 games in a row to hit .500, so that's how it comes about. You're looking at their total games and splitting that (84+34 = 118; 118/2 = 59; 84-59 = 25). You're going off because baseball records games as halves, since you need a win and a loss to make a full game. That's how teams can be half games behind another team, is because they've played one less game.

[InterceptPoint]

They have to lose 50 games in a row to hit .500, so that’s how it comes about.
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That’s actually a pretty good argument. Of course it sort of ignores the fact that there aren’t 50 games left so it is sort of meaningless.

But, in fact, I believe you have it right. You understand how baseball folks think. I obviously don’t.