1957 American League

1957 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1957 National League 1957 Major Leagues

1957 American League Leaders and Trailers
1957 Postseason
1957 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	98.0	56.0	252.0	210.0	42.0
Chicago White Sox	155.0	90.5	64.5	245.5	219.5	26.2
Boston Red Sox	154.0	82.0	72.0	236.0	226.0	9.7
Detroit Tigers	154.0	78.0	76.0	232.0	230.0	2.3
Baltimore Orioles	154.0	77.0	77.0	231.0	231.0	0.0
Cleveland Indians	153.0	76.0	77.0	229.0	230.0	-0.7
Kansas City Athletics	154.0	59.5	94.5	213.5	248.5	-35.2
Washington Senators I	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	239.2	222.8	17.4	43.7
Chicago White Sox	239.9	225.1	15.6	41.8
Boston Red Sox	236.4	225.6	11.1	37.0
Baltimore Orioles	232.8	229.2	4.2	30.2
Detroit Tigers	231.2	230.8	1.1	26.9
Cleveland Indians	227.9	231.1	-1.8	24.2
Kansas City Athletics	225.3	236.7	-11.7	14.9
Washington Senators I	221.6	240.4	-18.0	8.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	111.9	104.2	0.518	7.7
Chicago White Sox	113.8	107.3	0.515	6.5
Boston Red Sox	110.4	104.4	0.514	6.0
Cleveland Indians	105.6	102.6	0.507	3.0
Detroit Tigers	106.0	108.9	0.493	-3.0
Baltimore Orioles	106.5	111.0	0.490	-4.5
Kansas City Athletics	99.2	103.9	0.488	-4.7
Washington Senators I	102.8	109.1	0.485	-6.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	11.6	8.9	0.564	2.6
Baltimore Orioles	9.8	8.7	0.529	1.1
Detroit Tigers	9.1	8.3	0.522	0.8
New York Yankees	9.4	8.9	0.515	0.6
Boston Red Sox	8.4	7.8	0.517	0.5
Kansas City Athletics	7.7	7.3	0.512	0.4
Cleveland Indians	8.5	9.8	0.465	-1.3
Washington Senators I	7.0	8.9	0.442	-1.8


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	74.3	69.0	0.518	5.3
Baltimore Orioles	73.0	68.0	0.518	5.0
Boston Red Sox	71.4	67.8	0.513	3.6
Chicago White Sox	71.9	69.4	0.509	2.5
Detroit Tigers	73.7	73.9	0.499	-0.2
Cleveland Indians	72.5	74.8	0.492	-2.3
Washington Senators I	70.6	75.3	0.484	-4.7
Kansas City Athletics	74.0	79.3	0.483	-5.4


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	42.0	40.0	0.512	2.0
Chicago White Sox	41.9	40.1	0.511	1.8
New York Yankees	42.9	41.4	0.509	1.6
Baltimore Orioles	43.2	41.7	0.509	1.5
Boston Red Sox	45.7	46.1	0.498	-0.4
Kansas City Athletics	44.9	45.8	0.495	-0.9
Cleveland Indians	41.8	43.3	0.492	-1.4
Washington Senators I	42.5	45.8	0.481	-3.4

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1957 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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