1942 American League

1942 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1942 National League 1942 Major Leagues

1942 American League Leaders and Trailers
1942 Postseason
1942 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	154.0	103.0	51.0	257.0	205.0	52.4
Boston Red Sox	152.0	93.0	59.0	245.0	211.0	33.4
St. Louis Browns	151.0	82.0	69.0	233.0	220.0	12.7
Cleveland Indians	156.0	76.0	80.0	232.0	236.0	-4.3
Detroit Tigers	156.0	74.0	82.0	230.0	238.0	-9.0
Chicago White Sox	148.0	66.0	82.0	214.0	230.0	-16.0
Washington Senators I	151.0	62.0	89.0	213.0	240.0	-27.8
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	55.0	99.0	209.0	253.0	-44.1

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	244.3	217.7	27.9	54.1
Boston Red Sox	237.2	218.8	19.1	45.3
St. Louis Browns	231.9	221.1	11.6	37.5
Detroit Tigers	232.6	235.4	-2.3	24.9
Cleveland Indians	231.5	236.5	-4.9	22.1
Washington Senators I	222.8	230.2	-7.3	18.7
Chicago White Sox	215.9	228.1	-11.7	13.5
Philadelphia Athletics	219.5	242.5	-22.7	3.9


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	114.9	100.9	0.533	14.1
New York Yankees	115.0	103.1	0.527	12.0
St. Louis Browns	111.4	102.9	0.520	8.5
Washington Senators I	99.2	100.4	0.497	-1.2
Detroit Tigers	103.9	108.3	0.490	-4.4
Cleveland Indians	104.0	108.5	0.489	-4.5
Chicago White Sox	94.3	103.2	0.478	-8.9
Philadelphia Athletics	95.2	104.3	0.477	-9.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	11.7	10.0	0.539	1.7
Washington Senators I	11.0	10.1	0.519	0.8
Cleveland Indians	12.1	11.4	0.515	0.7
St. Louis Browns	9.5	9.1	0.512	0.4
Chicago White Sox	10.9	10.6	0.506	0.3
Philadelphia Athletics	9.0	9.6	0.483	-0.6
Boston Red Sox	9.9	10.6	0.484	-0.7
Detroit Tigers	8.3	9.7	0.460	-1.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	69.0	62.8	0.524	6.3
Detroit Tigers	71.9	68.1	0.514	3.9
St. Louis Browns	64.9	62.4	0.510	2.5
Boston Red Sox	65.5	64.3	0.504	1.2
Cleveland Indians	66.2	66.6	0.499	-0.4
Washington Senators I	65.1	65.6	0.498	-0.5
Chicago White Sox	65.3	67.2	0.493	-2.0
Philadelphia Athletics	68.4	76.5	0.472	-8.0


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	47.2	43.2	0.522	4.0
Boston Red Sox	46.6	43.3	0.518	3.3
Detroit Tigers	49.0	48.8	0.501	0.2
Cleveland Indians	49.7	49.5	0.501	0.1
Chicago White Sox	46.3	46.3	0.500	-0.1
St. Louis Browns	46.0	46.8	0.496	-0.8
Philadelphia Athletics	48.4	50.6	0.489	-2.2
Washington Senators I	48.2	53.4	0.474	-5.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1942 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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