1970 National League

1970 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1970 American League 1970 Major Leagues

1970 National League Leaders and Trailers
1970 Postseason
1970 Season as Seen Through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

Positional Average (Weighted Avg of Options): 0.500 (1-Year) (9-Year) (Long-Run) "

Positional Averages for Pitchers (Wgted Avg of Options): 0.500 "vs. Different Values for Starting vs. Relief Pitchers: (Empirical) (Based on Pitchers who Do Both)


Basic Player Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by pWOPA)
Team	Games	Wins	Losses	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA
Cincinnati Reds	162.0	102.0	60.0	264.0	222.0	40.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	162.0	89.0	73.0	251.0	235.0	14.6
Los Angeles Dodgers	161.0	87.0	74.0	248.0	235.0	12.1
San Francisco Giants	162.0	86.0	76.0	248.0	238.0	9.7
Chicago Cubs	162.0	84.0	78.0	246.0	240.0	5.7
New York Mets	162.0	83.0	79.0	245.0	241.0	3.3
Houston Astros	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-5.5
Atlanta Braves	162.0	76.0	86.0	238.0	248.0	-10.7
St. Louis Cardinals	162.0	76.0	86.0	238.0	248.0	-10.9
Philadelphia Phillies	161.0	73.0	88.0	234.0	249.0	-15.7
Montreal Expos	162.0	73.0	89.0	235.0	251.0	-17.1
San Diego Padres	162.0	63.0	99.0	225.0	261.0	-37.2

Ties count as 0.5 win and 0.5 loss. Teams in bold made the postseason. pWins equal team wins plus team games; pLosses equal team losses plus team games.


Expected Won-Lost Records by Team (Sorted by eWORL)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL
Cincinnati Reds	252.6	233.4	18.9	45.9
Chicago Cubs	249.7	236.3	14.3	41.0
San Francisco Giants	246.8	239.2	8.6	35.7
New York Mets	247.3	238.7	8.4	35.4
Pittsburgh Pirates	246.9	239.1	7.8	34.9
St. Louis Cardinals	243.3	242.7	1.0	27.9
Houston Astros	243.4	242.6	0.5	27.5
Los Angeles Dodgers	241.9	241.1	0.2	26.9
Atlanta Braves	241.6	244.4	-2.3	24.5
Montreal Expos	238.1	247.9	-9.4	17.9
San Diego Padres	237.6	248.4	-10.8	16.4
Philadelphia Phillies	235.7	247.3	-11.2	15.9


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
San Francisco Giants	118.8	106.7	0.527	12.1
Cincinnati Reds	117.7	105.8	0.527	12.0
Houston Astros	111.6	107.0	0.511	4.6
Los Angeles Dodgers	114.2	110.2	0.509	4.1
Atlanta Braves	115.3	112.3	0.507	3.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	112.0	110.7	0.503	1.3
San Diego Padres	106.4	106.2	0.500	0.1
Chicago Cubs	113.8	114.1	0.499	-0.3
Montreal Expos	106.5	107.7	0.497	-1.2
St. Louis Cardinals	107.8	112.6	0.489	-4.8
New York Mets	110.7	115.8	0.489	-5.1
Philadelphia Phillies	103.3	115.5	0.472	-12.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Pittsburgh Pirates	11.2	9.6	0.539	1.6
San Francisco Giants	10.4	9.3	0.528	1.1
Los Angeles Dodgers	11.9	11.2	0.515	0.7
Chicago Cubs	9.5	8.9	0.516	0.6
Houston Astros	10.4	9.8	0.515	0.6
Cincinnati Reds	11.4	10.9	0.510	0.5
Montreal Expos	10.2	9.8	0.509	0.4
St. Louis Cardinals	11.1	11.0	0.502	0.1
Atlanta Braves	10.1	10.7	0.486	-0.6
San Diego Padres	10.0	10.7	0.483	-0.7
New York Mets	10.9	11.9	0.478	-1.0
Philadelphia Phillies	9.2	10.5	0.465	-1.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago Cubs	80.9	68.9	0.540	12.0
New York Mets	82.9	71.7	0.536	11.3
St. Louis Cardinals	79.5	73.0	0.521	6.5
Cincinnati Reds	77.2	72.1	0.517	5.1
Philadelphia Phillies	77.9	73.6	0.514	4.3
Pittsburgh Pirates	76.5	74.4	0.507	2.2
Atlanta Braves	75.4	78.3	0.491	-2.9
San Francisco Giants	75.6	79.2	0.488	-3.6
Houston Astros	74.0	78.3	0.486	-4.3
San Diego Padres	75.4	79.9	0.486	-4.5
Los Angeles Dodgers	72.1	77.8	0.481	-5.8
Montreal Expos	77.4	84.1	0.479	-6.7


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Pittsburgh Pirates	47.4	44.3	0.517	3.1
Los Angeles Dodgers	44.3	41.4	0.517	2.9
New York Mets	41.8	40.2	0.510	1.6
Houston Astros	48.0	47.1	0.505	0.9
Montreal Expos	45.3	45.0	0.502	0.3
Cincinnati Reds	45.5	45.4	0.501	0.1
Philadelphia Phillies	45.9	47.0	0.494	-1.1
San Francisco Giants	42.4	43.8	0.492	-1.4
Atlanta Braves	41.0	42.8	0.489	-1.8
Chicago Cubs	44.0	45.9	0.490	-1.9
St. Louis Cardinals	44.3	46.7	0.487	-2.4
San Diego Padres	46.9	50.6	0.481	-3.8

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1970 National League

Ballpark Factors
Net Win Values
Positional Averages
Replacement Levels
Division of Shared Credit
Event Probabilities

^*Player won-loss records are calculated using Retrosheet play-by-play data. For some seasons, Retrosheet does not have full play-by-play data for all games. In these cases, some games may be missing.
The number of Games shown here are the number of games for which Retrosheet play-by-play data exist and were used in these calculations.

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