1971 American League

1971 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1971 National League 1971 Major Leagues

1971 American League Leaders and Trailers
1971 Postseason
1971 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
Baltimore Orioles	158.0	101.0	57.0	259.0	215.0	43.3
Oakland Athletics	161.0	101.0	60.0	262.0	221.0	40.5
Detroit Tigers	162.0	91.0	71.0	253.0	233.0	19.7
Kansas City Royals	161.0	85.0	76.0	246.0	237.0	8.0
Boston Red Sox	162.0	85.0	77.0	247.0	239.0	7.7
New York Yankees	162.0	81.0	81.0	243.0	243.0	-0.8
Chicago White Sox	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-5.1
California Angels	162.0	76.0	86.0	238.0	248.0	-10.5
Minnesota Twins	160.0	74.0	86.0	234.0	246.0	-13.3
Milwaukee Brewers	161.0	69.0	92.0	230.0	253.0	-23.6
Washington Senators II	159.0	64.0	95.0	223.0	254.0	-32.2
Cleveland Indians	162.0	60.0	102.0	222.0	264.0	-43.6

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
Baltimore Orioles	248.8	225.2	24.3	49.9
Oakland Athletics	252.0	231.0	21.5	47.9
Detroit Tigers	246.5	239.5	8.6	35.5
New York Yankees	246.1	239.9	6.5	32.9
Boston Red Sox	245.4	240.6	5.8	32.5
Chicago White Sox	245.3	240.7	4.8	31.6
Kansas City Royals	241.7	241.3	1.0	27.7
California Angels	242.3	243.7	-1.9	24.9
Minnesota Twins	238.6	241.4	-3.2	23.3
Milwaukee Brewers	237.1	245.9	-8.5	18.2
Washington Senators II	230.1	246.9	-16.6	9.9
Cleveland Indians	231.4	254.6	-23.8	3.4


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Baltimore Orioles	122.1	108.7	0.529	13.4
Detroit Tigers	112.0	101.2	0.525	10.8
Oakland Athletics	118.4	107.9	0.523	10.6
Boston Red Sox	112.2	107.3	0.511	4.9
Chicago White Sox	113.2	109.4	0.509	3.8
New York Yankees	114.1	111.6	0.506	2.6
Minnesota Twins	113.2	112.1	0.502	1.1
Kansas City Royals	104.1	108.6	0.489	-4.5
Washington Senators II	105.3	110.3	0.488	-5.0
Milwaukee Brewers	105.0	113.6	0.480	-8.6
Cleveland Indians	101.8	110.9	0.479	-9.1
California Angels	106.4	118.3	0.474	-11.8


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Oakland Athletics	13.4	11.5	0.538	1.9
Baltimore Orioles	11.7	9.8	0.543	1.9
Cleveland Indians	9.9	8.7	0.535	1.3
Kansas City Royals	11.8	10.8	0.522	1.0
Minnesota Twins	10.1	9.3	0.519	0.7
Milwaukee Brewers	11.0	10.5	0.512	0.5
Boston Red Sox	9.1	8.9	0.505	0.2
New York Yankees	11.2	11.3	0.497	-0.2
California Angels	9.9	10.1	0.496	-0.2
Washington Senators II	9.3	10.1	0.479	-0.8
Detroit Tigers	9.5	10.4	0.478	-0.9
Chicago White Sox	10.1	11.8	0.462	-1.7


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
California Angels	78.9	72.3	0.522	6.6
Baltimore Orioles	73.2	67.2	0.521	6.0
Chicago White Sox	76.3	70.4	0.520	5.9
Kansas City Royals	78.2	73.0	0.517	5.2
New York Yankees	73.8	68.8	0.517	5.0
Oakland Athletics	76.1	72.5	0.512	3.6
Milwaukee Brewers	76.8	77.1	0.499	-0.3
Minnesota Twins	72.4	74.4	0.493	-2.1
Detroit Tigers	78.0	81.2	0.490	-3.1
Boston Red Sox	76.6	80.0	0.489	-3.4
Washington Senators II	72.8	77.6	0.484	-4.8
Cleveland Indians	76.5	87.4	0.467	-10.9


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	47.6	44.3	0.518	3.3
Oakland Athletics	43.2	40.1	0.519	3.1
California Angels	46.4	43.8	0.515	2.6
Detroit Tigers	47.4	46.3	0.506	1.1
Milwaukee Brewers	44.9	44.2	0.504	0.7
Baltimore Orioles	40.9	40.3	0.504	0.7
Kansas City Royals	47.9	48.7	0.496	-0.7
Cleveland Indians	45.0	45.8	0.496	-0.8
Minnesota Twins	43.3	45.2	0.489	-2.0
New York Yankees	46.4	48.8	0.488	-2.4
Washington Senators II	44.3	47.1	0.485	-2.8
Chicago White Sox	45.7	49.1	0.482	-3.3

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1971 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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