1918 American League

1918 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1918 National League 1918 Major Leagues

1918 American League Leaders and Trailers
1918 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
Cleveland Indians	113.0	63.0	50.0	176.0	163.0	12.8
Boston Red Sox	68.0	40.0	28.0	108.0	96.0	11.9
Washington Senators I	47.0	27.0	20.0	74.0	67.0	6.8
New York Yankees	92.0	48.0	44.0	140.0	136.0	3.6
St. Louis Browns	39.0	19.0	20.0	58.0	59.0	-1.2
Detroit Tigers	44.0	17.5	26.5	61.5	70.5	-9.0
Philadelphia Athletics	100.0	43.5	56.5	143.5	156.5	-13.3
Chicago White Sox	91.0	39.0	52.0	130.0	143.0	-13.8

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	173.9	165.1	9.0	28.3
Chicago White Sox	138.3	134.7	3.3	19.0
New York Yankees	137.0	139.0	-1.7	14.3
Boston Red Sox	103.0	101.0	2.2	13.8
Philadelphia Athletics	146.6	153.4	-6.4	10.9
Washington Senators I	71.8	69.2	2.3	10.3
St. Louis Browns	57.8	59.2	-1.4	5.3
Detroit Tigers	64.0	68.0	-3.8	3.7


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	60.2	57.8	0.510	2.5
Cleveland Indians	75.7	73.3	0.508	2.4
Chicago White Sox	62.4	60.9	0.506	1.5
St. Louis Browns	26.4	24.9	0.514	1.5
Detroit Tigers	29.3	28.0	0.511	1.3
Boston Red Sox	42.9	43.7	0.495	-0.8
Washington Senators I	31.4	32.6	0.490	-1.2
Philadelphia Athletics	61.0	63.9	0.488	-3.0


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	11.9	10.3	0.536	1.6
New York Yankees	9.4	9.1	0.509	0.3
Philadelphia Athletics	8.9	8.6	0.509	0.3
Detroit Tigers	4.5	4.4	0.507	0.1
Boston Red Sox	6.0	5.9	0.502	0.1
Washington Senators I	4.8	5.0	0.493	-0.1
Chicago White Sox	9.5	9.7	0.494	-0.2
St. Louis Browns	3.6	4.8	0.430	-1.2


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	45.5	42.0	0.520	3.5
Washington Senators I	20.0	17.1	0.539	2.9
Chicago White Sox	35.8	32.9	0.521	2.9
Boston Red Sox	30.0	29.5	0.504	0.5
St. Louis Browns	14.7	15.8	0.482	-1.1
Detroit Tigers	16.8	19.0	0.469	-2.2
Philadelphia Athletics	40.6	43.0	0.486	-2.4
New York Yankees	37.1	40.8	0.476	-3.7


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	23.9	22.1	0.519	1.8
Washington Senators I	15.3	14.8	0.508	0.5
New York Yankees	30.8	30.8	0.500	-0.0
St. Louis Browns	13.4	13.5	0.499	-0.1
Philadelphia Athletics	36.9	37.0	0.499	-0.2
Cleveland Indians	40.0	40.2	0.498	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	30.5	31.3	0.493	-0.9
Detroit Tigers	13.9	16.1	0.463	-2.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1918 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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