1916 American League

1916 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1916 National League 1916 Major Leagues

1916 American League Leaders and Trailers
1916 Postseason

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
Boston Red Sox	74.0	46.5	27.5	120.5	101.5	18.9
New York Yankees	127.0	69.5	57.5	196.5	184.5	12.0
Chicago White Sox	123.0	67.5	55.5	190.5	178.5	11.9
Detroit Tigers	56.0	30.0	26.0	86.0	82.0	3.8
St. Louis Browns	32.0	17.0	15.0	49.0	47.0	1.7
Cleveland Indians	44.0	21.0	23.0	65.0	67.0	-2.1
Washington Senators I	55.0	20.5	34.5	75.5	89.5	-14.6
Philadelphia Athletics	71.0	19.0	52.0	90.0	123.0	-33.2

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
Chicago White Sox	188.0	181.0	7.2	29.2
New York Yankees	192.1	188.9	3.3	25.7
Boston Red Sox	113.8	108.2	5.7	18.9
Detroit Tigers	83.5	84.5	-1.1	8.9
St. Louis Browns	49.5	46.5	3.1	8.8
Washington Senators I	82.3	82.7	-1.1	8.6
Cleveland Indians	65.6	66.4	-0.7	7.3
Philadelphia Athletics	99.7	113.3	-14.0	-1.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	36.9	34.7	0.515	2.1
St. Louis Browns	22.1	20.2	0.522	1.8
New York Yankees	84.8	83.3	0.505	1.6
Cleveland Indians	26.5	25.9	0.506	0.6
Washington Senators I	36.2	35.8	0.502	0.3
Chicago White Sox	80.5	80.5	0.500	-0.1
Boston Red Sox	46.3	47.2	0.495	-0.9
Philadelphia Athletics	41.2	45.3	0.476	-4.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	12.9	11.5	0.529	1.4
Cleveland Indians	4.9	4.1	0.540	0.7
St. Louis Browns	3.6	3.4	0.517	0.2
Boston Red Sox	8.6	8.6	0.500	-0.0
Detroit Tigers	6.2	6.3	0.496	-0.1
New York Yankees	14.3	14.4	0.498	-0.1
Washington Senators I	5.6	6.8	0.451	-1.2
Philadelphia Athletics	6.2	8.1	0.434	-1.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	32.2	27.5	0.539	4.7
Chicago White Sox	50.2	47.8	0.512	2.4
New York Yankees	50.1	48.0	0.511	2.1
St. Louis Browns	12.6	11.8	0.515	0.7
Washington Senators I	21.4	21.2	0.502	0.2
Cleveland Indians	18.3	19.8	0.480	-1.6
Detroit Tigers	21.9	23.7	0.480	-1.8
Philadelphia Athletics	27.9	32.8	0.459	-4.9


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	44.0	41.5	0.514	2.5
Boston Red Sox	26.2	25.4	0.507	0.8
St. Louis Browns	11.3	11.1	0.505	0.2
Washington Senators I	19.0	19.0	0.499	-0.1
Cleveland Indians	16.2	16.3	0.498	-0.1
New York Yankees	42.7	43.2	0.497	-0.5
Detroit Tigers	18.7	19.7	0.487	-1.0
Philadelphia Athletics	25.0	26.4	0.487	-1.4

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1916 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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