1939 American League

1939 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1939 National League 1939 Major Leagues

1939 American League Leaders and Trailers
1939 Postseason
1939 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	152.0	106.5	45.5	258.5	197.5	61.2
Boston Red Sox	152.0	89.5	62.5	241.5	214.5	26.8
Cleveland Indians	154.0	87.0	67.0	241.0	221.0	20.0
Chicago White Sox	155.0	86.0	69.0	241.0	224.0	16.6
Detroit Tigers	155.0	81.5	73.5	236.5	228.5	7.7
Washington Senators I	153.0	65.0	88.0	218.0	241.0	-23.3
Philadelphia Athletics	153.0	55.5	97.5	208.5	250.5	-41.8
St. Louis Browns	156.0	44.0	112.0	200.0	268.0	-68.9

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	244.0	212.0	33.3	59.5
Detroit Tigers	238.2	226.8	12.1	39.3
Boston Red Sox	233.5	222.5	11.9	38.7
Cleveland Indians	235.6	226.4	9.4	36.4
Chicago White Sox	234.8	230.2	5.2	32.3
Washington Senators I	226.2	232.8	-6.2	20.5
Philadelphia Athletics	218.9	240.1	-20.4	6.5
St. Louis Browns	220.4	247.6	-27.7	0.2


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	120.4	101.8	0.542	18.6
Boston Red Sox	110.6	104.5	0.514	6.1
Detroit Tigers	107.7	105.7	0.505	2.0
Cleveland Indians	108.1	108.1	0.500	-0.1
Washington Senators I	100.3	103.9	0.491	-3.6
Philadelphia Athletics	100.8	105.3	0.489	-4.5
Chicago White Sox	103.7	108.4	0.489	-4.6
St. Louis Browns	98.6	106.5	0.481	-7.8


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	9.1	7.7	0.542	1.4
Detroit Tigers	10.2	8.9	0.534	1.3
Cleveland Indians	10.1	9.0	0.530	1.2
St. Louis Browns	8.7	8.1	0.516	0.5
Philadelphia Athletics	8.3	8.0	0.508	0.3
Chicago White Sox	10.6	10.9	0.492	-0.4
New York Yankees	10.2	10.5	0.491	-0.4
Washington Senators I	9.6	10.9	0.468	-1.3


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	72.8	64.5	0.530	8.3
Detroit Tigers	73.0	66.8	0.522	6.3
Boston Red Sox	68.6	63.0	0.521	5.6
Cleveland Indians	70.7	65.3	0.520	5.4
New York Yankees	68.4	63.0	0.521	5.4
Washington Senators I	68.4	68.0	0.501	0.4
Philadelphia Athletics	65.8	76.3	0.463	-10.5
St. Louis Browns	65.8	80.2	0.450	-14.5


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	43.5	38.2	0.533	5.3
Cleveland Indians	45.7	45.0	0.504	0.7
Detroit Tigers	46.5	46.2	0.502	0.4
Chicago White Sox	47.2	47.0	0.501	0.2
Washington Senators I	48.5	49.6	0.494	-1.1
St. Louis Browns	49.4	50.8	0.493	-1.4
Philadelphia Athletics	45.9	48.6	0.486	-2.7
Boston Red Sox	44.7	47.8	0.483	-3.1

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1939 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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