1987 American League

1987 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1987 National League 1987 Major Leagues

1987 American League Leaders and Trailers
1987 Postseason
1987 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
Detroit Tigers	162.0	98.0	64.0	260.0	226.0	34.2
Toronto Blue Jays	162.0	96.0	66.0	258.0	228.0	29.9
Milwaukee Brewers	162.0	91.0	71.0	253.0	233.0	19.4
New York Yankees	162.0	89.0	73.0	251.0	235.0	15.1
Minnesota Twins	162.0	85.0	77.0	247.0	239.0	7.3
Kansas City Royals	162.0	83.0	79.0	245.0	241.0	3.5
Oakland Athletics	162.0	81.0	81.0	243.0	243.0	-0.7
Seattle Mariners	162.0	78.0	84.0	240.0	246.0	-6.0
Boston Red Sox	162.0	78.0	84.0	240.0	246.0	-6.6
Chicago White Sox	162.0	77.0	85.0	239.0	247.0	-8.3
Texas Rangers	162.0	75.0	87.0	237.0	249.0	-12.5
California Angels	162.0	75.0	87.0	237.0	249.0	-12.5
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	67.0	95.0	229.0	257.0	-28.3
Cleveland Indians	162.0	61.0	101.0	223.0	263.0	-40.7

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
Toronto Blue Jays	252.8	233.2	18.9	46.3
Detroit Tigers	250.7	235.3	15.8	43.0
Milwaukee Brewers	246.2	239.8	5.9	33.3
Kansas City Royals	245.6	240.4	5.2	32.1
New York Yankees	245.8	240.2	4.6	32.1
Oakland Athletics	245.1	240.9	3.8	31.2
Boston Red Sox	243.7	242.3	0.9	27.9
Chicago White Sox	243.0	243.0	-0.0	27.4
California Angels	241.4	244.6	-2.5	25.0
Seattle Mariners	241.6	244.4	-2.6	24.5
Minnesota Twins	240.7	245.3	-4.8	22.7
Texas Rangers	240.5	245.5	-5.4	22.1
Cleveland Indians	236.6	249.4	-13.1	14.3
Baltimore Orioles	235.8	250.2	-14.7	12.6


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	116.2	106.3	0.522	10.0
Toronto Blue Jays	119.2	113.9	0.512	5.4
Oakland Athletics	113.6	108.7	0.511	4.9
Boston Red Sox	117.0	112.6	0.510	4.4
Milwaukee Brewers	112.3	109.8	0.506	2.5
Minnesota Twins	108.0	106.9	0.503	1.1
Texas Rangers	110.2	109.1	0.502	1.1
New York Yankees	109.6	109.5	0.500	0.2
Seattle Mariners	109.3	110.3	0.498	-0.9
Kansas City Royals	111.3	114.4	0.493	-3.1
Cleveland Indians	105.3	108.5	0.492	-3.2
California Angels	110.9	114.2	0.493	-3.4
Baltimore Orioles	110.9	115.9	0.489	-4.9
Chicago White Sox	105.3	115.4	0.477	-10.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Toronto Blue Jays	11.1	9.5	0.541	1.7
Cleveland Indians	11.3	9.8	0.537	1.6
Detroit Tigers	11.6	10.2	0.533	1.4
Kansas City Royals	10.4	9.1	0.533	1.3
Chicago White Sox	10.2	9.3	0.522	0.9
New York Yankees	10.5	9.8	0.518	0.7
Oakland Athletics	11.0	10.3	0.516	0.7
Texas Rangers	10.4	10.0	0.511	0.5
California Angels	10.5	10.6	0.496	-0.2
Baltimore Orioles	8.9	9.2	0.491	-0.3
Minnesota Twins	10.2	10.6	0.490	-0.4
Milwaukee Brewers	10.9	11.5	0.486	-0.6
Boston Red Sox	9.4	10.3	0.477	-0.9
Seattle Mariners	9.5	11.6	0.450	-2.1


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Kansas City Royals	79.9	72.6	0.524	7.3
Toronto Blue Jays	78.5	71.4	0.524	7.1
Milwaukee Brewers	81.3	74.4	0.522	6.9
Chicago White Sox	82.0	77.4	0.514	4.6
New York Yankees	81.5	77.4	0.513	4.1
Detroit Tigers	80.8	76.9	0.512	3.9
Oakland Athletics	79.3	79.3	0.500	0.0
Seattle Mariners	78.5	78.7	0.499	-0.2
California Angels	78.3	79.1	0.498	-0.8
Boston Red Sox	75.8	77.1	0.496	-1.3
Texas Rangers	80.4	84.8	0.487	-4.4
Minnesota Twins	80.9	85.8	0.486	-4.8
Cleveland Indians	77.4	83.6	0.481	-6.2
Baltimore Orioles	74.5	80.7	0.480	-6.2


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	45.2	41.2	0.523	4.0
California Angels	42.6	39.7	0.518	2.9
Toronto Blue Jays	42.4	40.0	0.515	2.5
Minnesota Twins	42.2	41.4	0.505	0.8
Seattle Mariners	44.4	43.7	0.504	0.7
New York Yankees	43.6	44.1	0.497	-0.5
Texas Rangers	40.2	40.9	0.496	-0.7
Baltimore Orioles	42.4	43.6	0.493	-1.2
Boston Red Sox	41.2	42.5	0.492	-1.3
Oakland Athletics	41.2	42.7	0.491	-1.5
Detroit Tigers	41.2	42.8	0.490	-1.7
Kansas City Royals	43.3	45.0	0.490	-1.7
Cleveland Indians	43.5	46.6	0.483	-3.1
Milwaukee Brewers	41.2	44.6	0.481	-3.3

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1987 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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