In sports, the phrase games behind, often abbreviated as GB in tables, is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. It is determined by adding the difference in wins between a leading team and the team of interest to the difference in losses between the two teams, and dividing by two. The leading team itself is always zero games behind. Often this is indicated in tables by a dash rather than a zero. In baseball, a pitcher is credited with a win (or W) when, in a game won by his team, he is the teams pitcher at the time that his team takes a lead that it does not relinquish for the remainder of the game. ... Loss has several meanings including: Loss in electronics is the ratio of the system output to system input In electronics, loss is the ratio of system output to system input. ...

It is often used in professional baseball and basketball. Usually, in tables of standings in newspapers and magazines kept during the season, teams are ordered by the number of games they are behind the division leader. Rankings of this kind may differ from rankings by winning percentage unless the teams involved have all played about the same number of games. Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...