1928 National League

1928 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1928 American League 1928 Major Leagues

1928 National League Leaders and Trailers
1928 Postseason
1928 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
St. Louis Cardinals	154.0	95.0	59.0	249.0	213.0	35.7
New York Giants	155.0	93.5	61.5	248.5	216.5	32.1
Chicago Cubs	154.0	91.0	63.0	245.0	217.0	28.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	152.0	85.0	67.0	237.0	219.0	17.9
Cincinnati Reds	153.0	78.5	74.5	231.5	227.5	3.9
Brooklyn Dodgers	155.0	78.0	77.0	233.0	232.0	0.7
Boston Braves	153.0	50.0	103.0	203.0	256.0	-54.3
Philadelphia Phillies	152.0	43.0	109.0	195.0	261.0	-66.3

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
St. Louis Cardinals	240.2	221.8	19.1	45.3
New York Giants	239.2	225.8	14.7	41.1
Chicago Cubs	237.6	224.4	13.9	40.0
Brooklyn Dodgers	236.1	228.9	8.3	34.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	231.1	224.9	7.1	32.9
Cincinnati Reds	226.5	232.5	-5.5	20.4
Boston Braves	219.2	239.8	-21.5	4.9
Philadelphia Phillies	216.9	239.1	-22.2	4.2


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago Cubs	111.1	102.2	0.521	8.9
New York Giants	114.3	105.6	0.520	8.7
St. Louis Cardinals	112.4	104.9	0.517	7.5
Brooklyn Dodgers	107.0	105.6	0.503	1.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	103.4	102.2	0.503	1.2
Philadelphia Phillies	96.5	102.3	0.485	-5.8
Cincinnati Reds	98.1	105.4	0.482	-7.3
Boston Braves	99.7	108.0	0.480	-8.4


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Pittsburgh Pirates	10.6	9.2	0.536	1.4
Chicago Cubs	10.4	9.5	0.522	0.9
St. Louis Cardinals	10.6	10.1	0.511	0.5
Cincinnati Reds	10.7	10.8	0.499	-0.1
Brooklyn Dodgers	10.6	10.7	0.497	-0.1
New York Giants	9.4	9.9	0.488	-0.4
Boston Braves	9.8	10.5	0.485	-0.6
Philadelphia Phillies	9.7	10.5	0.479	-0.8


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Brooklyn Dodgers	69.6	61.9	0.529	7.7
St. Louis Cardinals	67.6	62.1	0.521	5.5
New York Giants	66.3	62.1	0.516	4.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	67.8	63.8	0.515	3.9
Cincinnati Reds	65.2	63.7	0.506	1.5
Chicago Cubs	64.5	64.4	0.500	0.1
Boston Braves	62.0	69.3	0.472	-7.3
Philadelphia Phillies	62.7	73.2	0.461	-10.5


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Cardinals	48.7	45.5	0.517	3.3
Chicago Cubs	51.3	48.5	0.514	2.8
New York Giants	48.9	48.4	0.503	0.5
Cincinnati Reds	52.7	52.3	0.502	0.4
Pittsburgh Pirates	49.1	50.0	0.495	-0.9
Boston Braves	49.0	50.7	0.491	-1.7
Philadelphia Phillies	49.6	51.6	0.490	-2.0
Brooklyn Dodgers	48.5	51.1	0.487	-2.5

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1928 National 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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