2015 American League

2015 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

2015 National League 2015 Major Leagues

2015 American League Leaders and Trailers
2015 Postseason
2015 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
Kansas City Royals	162.0	95.0	67.0	257.0	229.0	27.2
Toronto Blue Jays	162.0	93.0	69.0	255.0	231.0	23.7
Texas Rangers	162.0	88.0	74.0	250.0	236.0	13.2
New York Yankees	162.0	87.0	75.0	249.0	237.0	11.1
Houston Astros	162.0	86.0	76.0	248.0	238.0	9.8
Anaheim Angels	162.0	85.0	77.0	247.0	239.0	7.5
Minnesota Twins	162.0	83.0	79.0	245.0	241.0	3.4
Cleveland Indians	161.0	81.0	80.0	242.0	241.0	0.7
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	81.0	81.0	243.0	243.0	-0.8
Tampa Bay Rays	162.0	80.0	82.0	242.0	244.0	-2.7
Boston Red Sox	162.0	78.0	84.0	240.0	246.0	-6.4
Chicago White Sox	162.0	76.0	86.0	238.0	248.0	-10.4
Seattle Mariners	162.0	76.0	86.0	238.0	248.0	-10.5
Detroit Tigers	161.0	74.0	87.0	235.0	248.0	-13.6
Oakland Athletics	162.0	68.0	94.0	230.0	256.0	-26.3

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
Houston Astros	252.1	233.9	18.2	46.8
Toronto Blue Jays	252.1	233.9	18.1	46.7
New York Yankees	247.6	238.4	8.8	37.6
Cleveland Indians	245.4	237.6	7.6	36.0
Tampa Bay Rays	246.4	239.6	6.0	35.4
Kansas City Royals	244.6	241.4	3.3	32.2
Texas Rangers	243.6	242.4	1.6	30.4
Boston Red Sox	243.3	242.7	0.2	28.8
Anaheim Angels	241.8	244.2	-2.0	26.9
Minnesota Twins	242.4	243.6	-1.9	26.8
Seattle Mariners	241.9	244.1	-2.4	26.7
Baltimore Orioles	242.2	243.8	-2.3	26.5
Oakland Athletics	241.0	245.0	-4.3	24.3
Detroit Tigers	238.9	244.1	-5.4	22.9
Chicago White Sox	238.5	247.5	-9.1	19.5


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Toronto Blue Jays	126.4	111.1	0.532	15.2
Houston Astros	118.7	111.0	0.517	7.8
New York Yankees	119.2	112.7	0.514	6.5
Detroit Tigers	113.8	110.6	0.507	3.2
Texas Rangers	107.7	105.7	0.505	2.1
Boston Red Sox	113.1	112.2	0.502	0.9
Seattle Mariners	111.0	110.5	0.501	0.5
Kansas City Royals	110.6	110.8	0.500	-0.2
Baltimore Orioles	111.4	112.1	0.498	-0.7
Tampa Bay Rays	110.6	112.3	0.496	-1.7
Oakland Athletics	116.9	118.7	0.496	-1.8
Anaheim Angels	108.3	111.2	0.493	-2.9
Cleveland Indians	115.6	119.2	0.492	-3.6
Minnesota Twins	106.0	109.9	0.491	-4.0
Chicago White Sox	107.1	115.3	0.482	-8.2


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Toronto Blue Jays	9.5	8.3	0.533	1.2
Kansas City Royals	9.3	8.4	0.525	0.9
Anaheim Angels	9.6	8.8	0.523	0.8
Houston Astros	10.0	9.3	0.519	0.7
Cleveland Indians	8.6	8.1	0.516	0.5
Minnesota Twins	9.0	8.5	0.512	0.4
Oakland Athletics	9.3	9.0	0.507	0.2
Tampa Bay Rays	9.4	9.2	0.506	0.2
Detroit Tigers	9.2	9.1	0.501	0.0
Chicago White Sox	10.3	10.2	0.501	0.0
New York Yankees	8.2	8.2	0.500	0.0
Texas Rangers	10.1	10.3	0.496	-0.2
Boston Red Sox	8.5	8.9	0.488	-0.4
Baltimore Orioles	7.4	8.1	0.477	-0.7
Seattle Mariners	8.3	9.2	0.473	-0.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	81.4	73.5	0.525	7.9
Houston Astros	80.2	72.6	0.525	7.6
Tampa Bay Rays	84.9	78.2	0.520	6.7
New York Yankees	79.8	76.0	0.512	3.8
Kansas City Royals	82.2	79.1	0.509	3.0
Boston Red Sox	79.2	76.6	0.508	2.6
Minnesota Twins	79.6	77.3	0.507	2.3
Baltimore Orioles	80.2	78.5	0.505	1.6
Chicago White Sox	79.0	78.3	0.502	0.6
Toronto Blue Jays	75.3	75.3	0.500	-0.0
Anaheim Angels	82.0	82.7	0.498	-0.7
Seattle Mariners	80.7	81.9	0.496	-1.2
Oakland Athletics	75.1	76.5	0.495	-1.4
Texas Rangers	79.0	81.6	0.492	-2.6
Detroit Tigers	73.6	79.9	0.480	-6.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Texas Rangers	47.5	44.1	0.519	3.5
Cleveland Indians	39.2	37.4	0.512	1.8
Anaheim Angels	42.5	41.0	0.509	1.5
Toronto Blue Jays	40.7	39.3	0.508	1.3
Kansas City Royals	43.1	42.5	0.503	0.5
Houston Astros	42.4	41.9	0.503	0.5
Tampa Bay Rays	40.9	40.5	0.503	0.5
Minnesota Twins	47.8	47.9	0.500	-0.1
Seattle Mariners	42.1	42.3	0.499	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	42.7	43.2	0.497	-0.5
Oakland Athletics	39.9	40.6	0.495	-0.7
Detroit Tigers	43.0	43.9	0.495	-0.9
New York Yankees	40.5	41.5	0.494	-1.0
Baltimore Orioles	43.6	44.7	0.494	-1.1
Boston Red Sox	42.4	45.1	0.484	-2.7

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 2015 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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