1946 American League

1946 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1946 National League 1946 Major Leagues

1946 American League Leaders and Trailers
1946 Postseason
1946 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
Boston Red Sox	156.0	105.0	51.0	261.0	207.0	53.9
Detroit Tigers	155.0	92.5	62.5	247.5	217.5	30.2
New York Yankees	154.0	87.0	67.0	241.0	221.0	20.1
Washington Senators I	155.0	76.5	78.5	231.5	233.5	-2.3
Chicago White Sox	155.0	74.5	80.5	229.5	235.5	-6.9
Cleveland Indians	156.0	69.0	87.0	225.0	243.0	-17.9
St. Louis Browns	156.0	67.0	89.0	223.0	245.0	-22.5
Philadelphia Athletics	155.0	49.5	105.5	204.5	260.5	-56.3

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
Boston Red Sox	245.6	222.4	24.3	51.2
New York Yankees	241.0	221.0	21.1	47.7
Detroit Tigers	239.7	225.3	16.2	42.8
St. Louis Browns	232.5	235.5	-3.4	23.7
Cleveland Indians	230.1	237.9	-6.6	20.7
Chicago White Sox	229.5	235.5	-6.1	20.5
Washington Senators I	227.6	237.4	-8.8	17.9
Philadelphia Athletics	224.7	240.3	-15.8	11.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	117.5	105.5	0.527	12.0
New York Yankees	114.2	104.1	0.523	10.1
Detroit Tigers	112.4	105.1	0.517	7.3
Washington Senators I	101.1	102.8	0.496	-1.7
St. Louis Browns	104.6	106.7	0.495	-2.0
Cleveland Indians	98.8	103.1	0.490	-4.2
Chicago White Sox	104.0	109.7	0.487	-5.7
Philadelphia Athletics	102.4	110.1	0.482	-7.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	10.7	9.0	0.541	1.6
Boston Red Sox	11.2	9.6	0.536	1.5
St. Louis Browns	9.2	8.0	0.536	1.2
Philadelphia Athletics	10.0	9.0	0.524	0.9
Cleveland Indians	9.3	9.5	0.497	-0.1
Detroit Tigers	10.1	10.4	0.494	-0.3
Washington Senators I	10.4	11.7	0.470	-1.3
Chicago White Sox	10.8	12.1	0.471	-1.3


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	73.5	67.1	0.523	6.4
New York Yankees	70.0	64.2	0.522	5.8
Boston Red Sox	70.3	65.5	0.518	4.8
Chicago White Sox	66.7	66.4	0.501	0.3
Cleveland Indians	75.5	76.0	0.499	-0.4
St. Louis Browns	67.7	69.2	0.495	-1.5
Washington Senators I	67.8	69.5	0.494	-1.7
Philadelphia Athletics	65.6	71.7	0.478	-6.1


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	45.8	42.5	0.518	3.3
Chicago White Sox	48.4	46.8	0.508	1.5
New York Yankees	45.3	44.5	0.504	0.8
St. Louis Browns	51.2	51.5	0.499	-0.3
Detroit Tigers	43.1	43.4	0.498	-0.3
Philadelphia Athletics	47.8	48.5	0.496	-0.7
Cleveland Indians	46.9	49.0	0.489	-2.1
Washington Senators I	49.1	52.6	0.483	-3.5

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1946 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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