1948 American League

1948 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1948 National League 1948 Major Leagues

1948 American League Leaders and Trailers
1948 Postseason
1948 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
Cleveland Indians	156.0	97.5	58.5	253.5	214.5	38.5
Boston Red Sox	155.0	96.0	59.0	251.0	214.0	37.0
New York Yankees	154.0	94.0	60.0	248.0	214.0	33.6
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	84.0	70.0	238.0	224.0	13.5
Detroit Tigers	154.0	78.0	76.0	232.0	230.0	1.8
St. Louis Browns	155.0	60.0	95.0	215.0	250.0	-35.9
Washington Senators I	154.0	56.5	97.5	210.5	251.5	-41.7
Chicago White Sox	154.0	52.0	102.0	206.0	256.0	-51.1

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
Cleveland Indians	246.5	221.5	25.7	52.4
Boston Red Sox	243.4	221.6	22.6	48.9
New York Yankees	240.5	221.5	19.1	45.4
Detroit Tigers	232.7	229.3	4.5	30.7
Philadelphia Athletics	228.7	233.3	-3.9	22.2
St. Louis Browns	226.5	238.5	-12.7	14.0
Washington Senators I	221.2	240.8	-19.8	6.9
Chicago White Sox	220.6	241.4	-22.0	4.4


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	116.3	103.4	0.529	12.9
New York Yankees	116.5	104.5	0.527	12.0
Cleveland Indians	117.1	106.6	0.524	10.5
Detroit Tigers	109.5	108.2	0.503	1.3
Philadelphia Athletics	103.3	103.7	0.499	-0.4
St. Louis Browns	102.0	107.0	0.488	-5.0
Chicago White Sox	99.9	111.3	0.473	-11.4
Washington Senators I	92.5	109.3	0.459	-16.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	10.3	7.3	0.587	3.1
New York Yankees	9.0	8.5	0.515	0.5
Cleveland Indians	9.2	8.7	0.514	0.5
Washington Senators I	9.4	8.9	0.513	0.5
St. Louis Browns	9.1	9.5	0.490	-0.4
Philadelphia Athletics	8.2	8.8	0.484	-0.5
Chicago White Sox	8.8	9.4	0.485	-0.6
Detroit Tigers	8.4	9.5	0.470	-1.1


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	75.0	67.9	0.525	7.1
Detroit Tigers	71.6	67.6	0.515	4.0
Boston Red Sox	70.3	67.2	0.511	3.1
New York Yankees	71.7	69.7	0.507	2.0
Washington Senators I	74.6	74.4	0.501	0.2
Philadelphia Athletics	70.4	72.9	0.491	-2.5
St. Louis Browns	70.5	73.2	0.491	-2.7
Chicago White Sox	65.5	71.2	0.479	-5.8


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	44.2	39.3	0.529	4.8
New York Yankees	42.3	39.8	0.515	2.5
Boston Red Sox	45.6	44.6	0.506	1.1
Philadelphia Athletics	47.6	47.0	0.503	0.6
Detroit Tigers	43.0	44.1	0.494	-1.1
Chicago White Sox	47.3	48.5	0.494	-1.2
Washington Senators I	45.3	47.6	0.488	-2.3
St. Louis Browns	45.3	48.5	0.483	-3.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1948 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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