1929 American League

1929 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1929 National League 1929 Major Leagues

1929 American League Leaders and Trailers
1929 Postseason
1929 Season as Seen Through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

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
Philadelphia Athletics	151.0	104.5	46.5	255.5	197.5	57.9
New York Yankees	154.0	88.0	66.0	242.0	220.0	22.1
Cleveland Indians	152.0	81.0	71.0	233.0	223.0	9.8
St. Louis Browns	154.0	80.0	74.0	234.0	228.0	5.7
Washington Senators I	153.0	71.5	81.5	224.5	234.5	-10.8
Detroit Tigers	155.0	70.5	84.5	225.5	239.5	-14.3
Chicago White Sox	152.0	59.0	93.0	211.0	245.0	-34.5
Boston Red Sox	155.0	58.5	96.5	213.5	251.5	-38.3

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
Philadelphia Athletics	236.9	216.1	21.9	47.2
New York Yankees	238.2	223.8	15.1	40.7
Washington Senators I	232.0	227.0	4.6	30.0
Detroit Tigers	233.6	231.4	2.9	28.6
Cleveland Indians	228.9	227.1	2.3	27.3
St. Louis Browns	229.0	233.0	-4.0	21.3
Chicago White Sox	221.1	234.9	-14.2	10.8
Boston Red Sox	224.9	240.1	-15.2	10.4


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	113.1	99.5	0.532	13.6
Philadelphia Athletics	108.8	99.1	0.523	9.7
Detroit Tigers	108.2	99.7	0.521	8.5
Cleveland Indians	102.7	102.6	0.500	0.1
Washington Senators I	108.2	109.4	0.497	-1.2
St. Louis Browns	102.8	106.2	0.492	-3.5
Chicago White Sox	97.4	109.3	0.471	-11.9
Boston Red Sox	96.1	108.8	0.469	-12.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	9.9	8.5	0.538	1.4
St. Louis Browns	10.2	9.7	0.513	0.5
Detroit Tigers	10.7	10.4	0.507	0.3
Chicago White Sox	12.2	12.0	0.505	0.2
Washington Senators I	11.4	11.3	0.504	0.2
New York Yankees	9.4	9.6	0.496	-0.1
Boston Red Sox	10.5	10.9	0.489	-0.5
Cleveland Indians	10.0	10.6	0.485	-0.6


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	70.4	64.8	0.521	5.6
Washington Senators I	63.7	58.9	0.520	4.8
Cleveland Indians	64.9	61.1	0.515	3.7
New York Yankees	66.5	65.8	0.503	0.8
St. Louis Browns	66.6	67.3	0.497	-0.7
Boston Red Sox	67.0	68.3	0.495	-1.3
Detroit Tigers	65.4	68.8	0.488	-3.3
Chicago White Sox	62.1	65.8	0.486	-3.7


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	47.2	44.1	0.517	3.2
Chicago White Sox	49.6	47.5	0.511	2.1
Washington Senators I	48.4	47.7	0.504	0.7
Boston Red Sox	52.0	51.5	0.503	0.6
St. Louis Browns	49.7	49.7	0.500	0.1
New York Yankees	49.0	49.2	0.499	-0.2
Cleveland Indians	51.2	53.0	0.491	-1.8
Detroit Tigers	49.4	52.3	0.486	-2.9

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1929 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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