1938 American League

1938 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1938 National League 1938 Major Leagues

1938 American League Leaders and Trailers
1938 Postseason
1938 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
New York Yankees	157.0	101.5	55.5	258.5	212.5	46.0
Boston Red Sox	150.0	88.5	61.5	238.5	211.5	26.9
Cleveland Indians	153.0	86.5	66.5	239.5	219.5	19.8
Detroit Tigers	155.0	84.5	70.5	239.5	225.5	13.8
Washington Senators I	152.0	75.5	76.5	227.5	228.5	-1.1
Chicago White Sox	149.0	65.5	83.5	214.5	232.5	-18.1
St. Louis Browns	156.0	57.0	99.0	213.0	255.0	-42.8
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	54.0	100.0	208.0	254.0	-46.1

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
New York Yankees	251.8	219.2	33.5	59.6
Boston Red Sox	231.1	218.9	13.0	38.3
Cleveland Indians	231.8	227.2	5.3	31.5
Detroit Tigers	233.2	231.8	3.4	29.6
Washington Senators I	229.1	226.9	2.0	27.5
Chicago White Sox	219.7	227.3	-7.0	17.8
Philadelphia Athletics	223.9	238.1	-14.3	11.7
St. Louis Browns	224.5	243.5	-19.0	7.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	116.7	104.5	0.528	12.2
Boston Red Sox	108.4	103.1	0.513	5.4
Detroit Tigers	109.4	104.0	0.513	5.4
Washington Senators I	108.1	105.8	0.505	2.3
Cleveland Indians	103.2	102.0	0.503	1.2
Philadelphia Athletics	102.8	106.9	0.490	-4.1
St. Louis Browns	103.8	110.2	0.485	-6.4
Chicago White Sox	97.9	107.9	0.476	-10.0


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	10.2	8.2	0.555	2.0
Cleveland Indians	9.6	7.8	0.553	1.8
Boston Red Sox	9.3	8.6	0.522	0.8
Washington Senators I	9.2	8.5	0.521	0.7
St. Louis Browns	9.2	8.7	0.514	0.5
Chicago White Sox	9.0	9.6	0.483	-0.6
Philadelphia Athletics	8.2	9.4	0.465	-1.2
Detroit Tigers	8.3	10.2	0.448	-1.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	75.1	65.2	0.535	9.8
Boston Red Sox	67.4	63.0	0.517	4.4
Chicago White Sox	67.5	64.4	0.512	3.1
Cleveland Indians	73.5	72.1	0.505	1.4
Washington Senators I	67.3	67.2	0.501	0.1
Detroit Tigers	69.5	70.1	0.498	-0.6
Philadelphia Athletics	68.7	74.0	0.482	-5.2
St. Louis Browns	69.7	77.0	0.475	-7.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	47.9	43.1	0.527	4.8
Detroit Tigers	47.1	46.3	0.504	0.8
Boston Red Sox	45.5	44.7	0.504	0.8
Chicago White Sox	45.5	45.2	0.502	0.3
Cleveland Indians	45.5	45.3	0.501	0.2
Washington Senators I	44.0	45.8	0.490	-1.8
Philadelphia Athletics	44.8	47.1	0.487	-2.3
St. Louis Browns	43.2	46.1	0.484	-2.9

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1938 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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