1944 American League

1944 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1944 National League 1944 Major Leagues

1944 American League Leaders and Trailers
1944 Postseason
1944 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
St. Louis Browns	154.0	89.0	65.0	243.0	219.0	23.7
Detroit Tigers	156.0	89.0	67.0	245.0	223.0	22.1
New York Yankees	154.0	83.0	71.0	237.0	225.0	11.9
Boston Red Sox	156.0	78.0	78.0	234.0	234.0	-0.3
Philadelphia Athletics	155.0	72.5	82.5	227.5	237.5	-10.3
Cleveland Indians	155.0	72.5	82.5	227.5	237.5	-10.6
Chicago White Sox	154.0	71.0	83.0	225.0	237.0	-12.1
Washington Senators I	154.0	64.0	90.0	218.0	244.0	-26.6

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
Detroit Tigers	240.2	227.8	13.7	39.6
St. Louis Browns	233.8	228.2	6.4	32.3
Cleveland Indians	235.0	230.0	5.7	32.1
Boston Red Sox	236.4	231.6	5.5	31.8
New York Yankees	232.6	229.4	4.5	30.2
Washington Senators I	229.6	232.4	-3.5	22.1
Philadelphia Athletics	230.1	234.9	-4.8	21.0
Chicago White Sox	225.7	236.3	-10.3	15.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	111.3	102.4	0.521	9.0
New York Yankees	109.0	101.6	0.518	7.4
Cleveland Indians	104.8	101.0	0.509	3.8
St. Louis Browns	107.7	104.4	0.508	3.3
Detroit Tigers	107.0	103.8	0.507	3.1
Washington Senators I	101.3	104.4	0.492	-3.1
Chicago White Sox	100.3	109.8	0.477	-9.5
Philadelphia Athletics	102.3	112.3	0.477	-10.0


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Washington Senators I	13.2	11.4	0.536	1.8
St. Louis Browns	10.7	9.4	0.533	1.3
Boston Red Sox	12.3	11.4	0.519	0.9
Cleveland Indians	10.1	9.3	0.520	0.8
Philadelphia Athletics	10.1	9.9	0.506	0.2
Chicago White Sox	10.8	10.7	0.502	0.1
Detroit Tigers	11.0	11.1	0.497	-0.1
New York Yankees	10.8	11.6	0.484	-0.7


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	71.1	62.0	0.534	9.1
Philadelphia Athletics	67.6	63.0	0.518	4.6
St. Louis Browns	67.8	65.5	0.509	2.3
Chicago White Sox	65.1	65.6	0.498	-0.5
Washington Senators I	64.0	64.5	0.498	-0.6
Cleveland Indians	67.9	69.3	0.495	-1.3
New York Yankees	67.7	69.6	0.493	-1.9
Boston Red Sox	65.2	69.2	0.485	-3.9


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	52.6	50.0	0.513	2.6
Chicago White Sox	50.2	49.5	0.503	0.6
Philadelphia Athletics	50.1	49.7	0.502	0.5
New York Yankees	45.6	46.0	0.498	-0.4
Boston Red Sox	47.8	48.4	0.497	-0.6
Washington Senators I	51.1	52.2	0.494	-1.2
Detroit Tigers	50.2	51.8	0.492	-1.6
St. Louis Browns	47.4	49.1	0.492	-1.6

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1944 American 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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