1926 American League

1926 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1926 National League 1926 Major Leagues

1926 American League Leaders and Trailers
1926 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	130.0	77.0	53.0	207.0	183.0	24.1
Cleveland Indians	153.0	87.0	66.0	240.0	219.0	20.9
Philadelphia Athletics	140.0	77.0	63.0	217.0	203.0	13.5
Chicago White Sox	139.0	71.5	67.5	210.5	206.5	4.0
Detroit Tigers	89.0	45.5	43.5	134.5	132.5	1.8
Washington Senators I	91.0	45.0	46.0	136.0	137.0	-1.0
St. Louis Browns	91.0	33.0	58.0	124.0	149.0	-25.4
Boston Red Sox	103.0	32.0	71.0	135.0	174.0	-39.5

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
New York Yankees	202.8	187.2	16.0	37.4
Cleveland Indians	234.1	224.9	9.8	34.8
Philadelphia Athletics	213.8	206.2	8.0	31.4
Chicago White Sox	210.5	206.5	4.4	27.2
Detroit Tigers	134.7	132.3	2.8	17.7
Washington Senators I	135.3	137.7	-1.7	13.3
St. Louis Browns	130.1	142.9	-13.3	1.7
Boston Red Sox	146.0	163.0	-17.1	0.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	96.6	83.6	0.536	13.1
Chicago White Sox	94.3	92.8	0.504	1.5
Detroit Tigers	59.3	57.9	0.506	1.4
Cleveland Indians	105.1	104.7	0.501	0.3
Washington Senators I	61.8	61.8	0.500	-0.1
St. Louis Browns	59.9	61.5	0.494	-1.6
Philadelphia Athletics	97.5	100.1	0.494	-2.5
Boston Red Sox	61.5	70.8	0.465	-9.2


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	11.9	9.7	0.550	2.1
Chicago White Sox	11.7	10.3	0.531	1.4
Washington Senators I	7.0	6.5	0.520	0.5
Detroit Tigers	6.8	6.7	0.503	0.1
Philadelphia Athletics	9.6	9.6	0.500	0.0
New York Yankees	10.0	10.1	0.498	-0.1
Boston Red Sox	6.2	6.4	0.490	-0.3
St. Louis Browns	5.6	6.7	0.453	-1.1


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	62.0	53.9	0.535	8.1
New York Yankees	54.6	51.0	0.517	3.6
Cleveland Indians	64.2	63.0	0.505	1.2
Detroit Tigers	39.6	39.0	0.504	0.6
Chicago White Sox	57.8	57.9	0.500	-0.1
Washington Senators I	37.7	38.2	0.497	-0.5
Boston Red Sox	43.4	46.2	0.485	-2.8
St. Louis Browns	35.3	42.6	0.453	-7.4


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	52.5	47.9	0.523	4.6
Chicago White Sox	46.8	45.5	0.507	1.3
Philadelphia Athletics	44.3	43.0	0.507	1.3
Detroit Tigers	28.9	28.7	0.502	0.2
St. Louis Browns	30.2	31.3	0.491	-1.1
Washington Senators I	29.2	30.8	0.487	-1.6
New York Yankees	40.9	43.2	0.486	-2.3
Boston Red Sox	35.9	38.6	0.481	-2.8

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1926 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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