1939 National League

1939 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1939 American League 1939 Major Leagues

1939 National League Leaders and Trailers
1939 Postseason
1939 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
Cincinnati Reds	156.0	98.0	58.0	254.0	214.0	39.5
St. Louis Cardinals	155.0	93.0	62.0	248.0	217.0	30.5
Brooklyn Dodgers	157.0	86.0	71.0	243.0	228.0	14.9
Chicago Cubs	156.0	85.0	71.0	241.0	227.0	13.5
New York Giants	151.0	77.0	74.0	228.0	225.0	2.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	153.0	68.0	85.0	221.0	238.0	-17.2
Boston Braves	152.0	63.5	88.5	215.5	240.5	-25.4
Philadelphia Phillies	152.0	45.5	106.5	197.5	258.5	-61.1

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
St. Louis Cardinals	243.0	222.0	21.1	48.4
Cincinnati Reds	238.9	229.1	10.9	38.1
Brooklyn Dodgers	239.5	231.5	8.7	36.3
Chicago Cubs	236.4	231.6	5.7	33.0
New York Giants	229.0	224.0	6.1	32.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	227.9	231.1	-2.8	23.8
Boston Braves	224.1	231.9	-7.6	19.1
Philadelphia Phillies	213.5	242.5	-29.0	-2.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Cardinals	113.5	103.0	0.524	10.5
New York Giants	109.0	100.9	0.519	8.1
Chicago Cubs	106.8	101.6	0.513	5.2
Cincinnati Reds	112.0	107.5	0.510	4.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	107.2	108.8	0.496	-1.7
Brooklyn Dodgers	106.1	108.6	0.494	-2.4
Boston Braves	98.7	106.8	0.480	-8.1
Philadelphia Phillies	95.7	105.6	0.475	-9.9


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Giants	9.1	7.8	0.540	1.3
St. Louis Cardinals	11.2	10.0	0.530	1.3
Brooklyn Dodgers	11.1	10.6	0.511	0.5
Boston Braves	9.7	9.7	0.501	0.0
Cincinnati Reds	9.3	9.3	0.500	0.0
Chicago Cubs	10.4	10.9	0.489	-0.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	8.6	9.4	0.479	-0.8
Philadelphia Phillies	8.9	10.2	0.466	-1.3


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Brooklyn Dodgers	72.5	63.9	0.531	8.6
St. Louis Cardinals	68.0	64.0	0.515	4.1
Cincinnati Reds	69.9	67.1	0.510	2.9
Chicago Cubs	69.9	68.2	0.506	1.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	62.6	62.9	0.499	-0.3
Boston Braves	64.9	65.8	0.497	-0.9
New York Giants	64.5	66.2	0.494	-1.6
Philadelphia Phillies	62.3	73.1	0.460	-10.8


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Cardinals	49.3	46.0	0.517	3.3
Boston Braves	51.3	49.1	0.511	2.2
Cincinnati Reds	47.2	45.6	0.509	1.6
Brooklyn Dodgers	49.2	49.0	0.501	0.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	49.8	49.6	0.501	0.2
Chicago Cubs	49.5	50.7	0.494	-1.2
New York Giants	47.0	48.5	0.492	-1.5
Philadelphia Phillies	48.5	51.6	0.485	-3.0

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1939 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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