1921 American League

1921 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1921 National League 1921 Major Leagues

1921 American League Leaders and Trailers
1921 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
New York Yankees	133.0	85.0	48.0	218.0	181.0	37.1
Cleveland Indians	153.0	93.0	60.0	246.0	213.0	33.3
St. Louis Browns	98.0	51.0	47.0	149.0	145.0	3.6
Washington Senators I	79.0	40.5	38.5	119.5	117.5	1.6
Detroit Tigers	77.0	34.5	42.5	111.5	119.5	-8.0
Boston Red Sox	94.0	41.0	53.0	135.0	147.0	-12.2
Chicago White Sox	120.0	51.0	69.0	171.0	189.0	-18.3
Philadelphia Athletics	118.0	40.0	78.0	158.0	196.0	-38.1

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	238.9	220.1	19.6	45.1
New York Yankees	209.3	189.7	20.1	42.3
St. Louis Browns	145.5	148.5	-3.1	13.5
Detroit Tigers	115.3	115.7	-0.3	12.7
Washington Senators I	118.2	118.8	-0.7	12.5
Chicago White Sox	176.0	184.0	-8.2	12.0
Boston Red Sox	137.1	144.9	-7.7	8.2
Philadelphia Athletics	170.7	183.3	-12.3	7.6


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	99.1	84.7	0.539	14.4
Cleveland Indians	112.3	103.8	0.520	8.6
Detroit Tigers	55.0	51.9	0.514	3.1
St. Louis Browns	65.5	65.2	0.501	0.3
Washington Senators I	52.3	54.9	0.488	-2.7
Chicago White Sox	76.5	81.0	0.486	-4.5
Philadelphia Athletics	74.0	82.3	0.474	-8.3
Boston Red Sox	57.3	66.1	0.464	-8.8


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	11.2	10.3	0.520	0.9
Washington Senators I	6.8	5.9	0.532	0.8
St. Louis Browns	6.9	6.5	0.514	0.4
Boston Red Sox	6.2	5.9	0.514	0.3
New York Yankees	10.2	10.1	0.502	0.1
Detroit Tigers	5.7	5.9	0.491	-0.2
Philadelphia Athletics	7.7	8.4	0.480	-0.6
Chicago White Sox	8.2	10.2	0.445	-2.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	65.7	60.3	0.521	5.3
New York Yankees	58.1	54.2	0.517	3.9
Boston Red Sox	42.9	42.1	0.505	0.8
Washington Senators I	33.8	33.1	0.506	0.7
Chicago White Sox	51.8	51.8	0.500	0.0
Philadelphia Athletics	50.4	51.3	0.495	-1.0
Detroit Tigers	31.0	34.1	0.476	-3.2
St. Louis Browns	41.7	44.9	0.481	-3.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	48.7	46.7	0.510	2.0
Washington Senators I	25.4	24.8	0.506	0.6
Detroit Tigers	23.9	23.5	0.505	0.5
Boston Red Sox	31.0	30.5	0.503	0.4
St. Louis Browns	31.6	31.7	0.499	-0.2
New York Yankees	40.6	41.9	0.492	-1.3
Chicago White Sox	39.6	41.0	0.491	-1.4
Philadelphia Athletics	39.2	40.7	0.491	-1.5

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1921 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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