1917 American League

1917 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1917 National League 1917 Major Leagues

1917 American League Leaders and Trailers
1917 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
Chicago White Sox	105.0	65.5	39.5	170.5	144.5	25.6
Cleveland Indians	127.0	74.5	52.5	201.5	179.5	21.6
Boston Red Sox	69.0	39.0	30.0	108.0	99.0	8.7
Detroit Tigers	43.0	20.0	23.0	63.0	66.0	-3.3
Washington Senators I	51.0	23.0	28.0	74.0	79.0	-4.9
New York Yankees	61.0	24.5	36.5	85.5	97.5	-12.1
St. Louis Browns	42.0	12.0	30.0	54.0	72.0	-18.2
Philadelphia Athletics	94.0	37.5	56.5	131.5	150.5	-19.1

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
Cleveland Indians	193.4	187.6	6.7	29.5
Chicago White Sox	160.8	154.2	6.3	25.2
Boston Red Sox	105.0	102.0	3.3	15.5
New York Yankees	92.6	90.4	1.7	12.4
Philadelphia Athletics	138.0	144.0	-5.4	11.2
Washington Senators I	75.5	77.5	-1.8	7.4
Detroit Tigers	63.9	65.1	-1.3	6.3
St. Louis Browns	59.2	66.8	-7.7	-0.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	67.9	66.2	0.506	1.7
Philadelphia Athletics	64.6	63.1	0.506	1.5
Detroit Tigers	27.9	27.0	0.509	1.0
Boston Red Sox	44.7	44.3	0.502	0.4
Cleveland Indians	80.1	80.6	0.499	-0.4
Washington Senators I	33.8	34.4	0.496	-0.6
St. Louis Browns	25.7	26.3	0.493	-0.7
New York Yankees	41.8	43.0	0.493	-1.2


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	11.3	9.5	0.542	1.7
Cleveland Indians	14.2	13.0	0.522	1.2
New York Yankees	5.7	5.5	0.511	0.2
Philadelphia Athletics	8.4	8.6	0.495	-0.2
Detroit Tigers	4.8	5.1	0.485	-0.3
Washington Senators I	4.8	5.2	0.479	-0.4
Boston Red Sox	5.9	6.5	0.476	-0.6
St. Louis Browns	3.5	4.7	0.423	-1.3


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	54.8	48.8	0.529	6.0
Boston Red Sox	30.3	28.3	0.517	2.0
Chicago White Sox	43.6	42.6	0.506	1.0
New York Yankees	23.6	22.7	0.510	0.9
Washington Senators I	20.9	21.3	0.496	-0.3
Detroit Tigers	16.7	17.6	0.487	-0.9
St. Louis Browns	15.7	18.9	0.455	-3.1
Philadelphia Athletics	36.5	39.7	0.479	-3.2


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	37.7	36.2	0.511	1.6
New York Yankees	20.9	19.7	0.514	1.2
Boston Red Sox	24.0	23.1	0.510	0.9
Washington Senators I	16.3	16.4	0.498	-0.1
Detroit Tigers	14.6	15.3	0.488	-0.7
St. Louis Browns	15.0	16.2	0.480	-1.3
Cleveland Indians	44.1	45.4	0.493	-1.3
Philadelphia Athletics	29.4	31.7	0.481	-2.4

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1917 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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