1947 American League

1947 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1947 National League 1947 Major Leagues

1947 American League Leaders and Trailers
1947 Postseason
1947 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	155.0	97.5	57.5	252.5	212.5	40.0
Detroit Tigers	158.0	87.0	71.0	245.0	229.0	16.0
Boston Red Sox	157.0	84.5	72.5	241.5	229.5	11.5
Cleveland Indians	157.0	81.5	75.5	238.5	232.5	5.3
Philadelphia Athletics	156.0	79.0	77.0	235.0	233.0	1.3
Chicago White Sox	155.0	70.5	84.5	225.5	239.5	-14.8
Washington Senators I	154.0	64.0	90.0	218.0	244.0	-26.2
St. Louis Browns	154.0	59.0	95.0	213.0	249.0	-36.6

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	240.7	224.3	17.8	43.6
Detroit Tigers	244.8	229.2	15.8	41.7
Boston Red Sox	241.1	229.9	11.8	37.9
Cleveland Indians	236.9	234.1	3.3	29.8
Philadelphia Athletics	235.1	232.9	2.2	28.1
St. Louis Browns	226.2	235.8	-9.6	15.9
Chicago White Sox	227.3	237.7	-10.5	15.6
Washington Senators I	223.7	238.3	-14.3	11.2


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	119.3	106.5	0.528	12.8
Detroit Tigers	114.9	105.0	0.522	9.8
Boston Red Sox	112.9	106.3	0.515	6.6
Cleveland Indians	109.3	108.1	0.503	1.3
Philadelphia Athletics	107.5	109.5	0.495	-2.0
St. Louis Browns	103.4	107.8	0.489	-4.5
Chicago White Sox	99.2	105.4	0.485	-6.3
Washington Senators I	94.8	106.8	0.470	-12.0


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	10.2	8.3	0.551	1.9
St. Louis Browns	9.6	8.7	0.524	0.9
Boston Red Sox	10.0	9.3	0.519	0.7
New York Yankees	9.6	9.1	0.512	0.5
Washington Senators I	9.0	9.1	0.498	-0.1
Detroit Tigers	10.1	10.3	0.494	-0.3
Cleveland Indians	9.2	9.8	0.486	-0.5
Chicago White Sox	9.3	10.5	0.470	-1.2


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	72.4	68.8	0.513	3.6
Washington Senators I	73.7	70.2	0.512	3.4
Boston Red Sox	70.9	68.7	0.508	2.2
New York Yankees	70.9	68.9	0.507	2.0
Philadelphia Athletics	69.7	69.5	0.501	0.2
Chicago White Sox	70.1	71.1	0.496	-1.0
Cleveland Indians	73.3	74.5	0.496	-1.2
St. Louis Browns	68.9	71.7	0.490	-2.8


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	45.3	41.6	0.521	3.7
Philadelphia Athletics	47.9	45.2	0.514	2.6
New York Yankees	40.8	40.0	0.505	0.7
Boston Red Sox	46.8	46.2	0.503	0.6
Detroit Tigers	46.2	46.4	0.499	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	49.4	49.9	0.497	-0.5
St. Louis Browns	45.2	46.7	0.491	-1.6
Washington Senators I	46.6	51.6	0.474	-5.0

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1947 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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