1959 National League

1959 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1959 American League 1959 Major Leagues

1959 National League Leaders and Trailers
1959 Postseason
1959 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
Los Angeles Dodgers	156.0	88.0	68.0	244.0	224.0	19.6
Milwaukee Braves	157.0	86.5	70.5	243.5	227.5	16.0
San Francisco Giants	154.0	83.0	71.0	237.0	225.0	11.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	155.0	78.5	76.5	233.5	231.5	1.8
Chicago Cubs	155.0	74.5	80.5	229.5	235.5	-6.1
Cincinnati Reds	154.0	74.0	80.0	228.0	234.0	-6.6
St. Louis Cardinals	154.0	71.0	83.0	225.0	237.0	-12.3
Philadelphia Phillies	155.0	64.5	90.5	219.5	245.5	-26.6

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
San Francisco Giants	237.8	224.2	15.1	40.8
Milwaukee Braves	240.6	230.4	10.8	36.6
Los Angeles Dodgers	235.3	232.7	2.9	29.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	232.6	232.4	0.9	26.6
Cincinnati Reds	231.1	230.9	0.6	26.2
St. Louis Cardinals	231.0	231.0	0.3	26.1
Chicago Cubs	232.0	233.0	-0.3	25.7
Philadelphia Phillies	224.6	240.4	-15.8	10.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	113.8	106.1	0.518	7.7
San Francisco Giants	109.2	102.7	0.515	6.5
Los Angeles Dodgers	107.9	103.3	0.511	4.6
Chicago Cubs	110.4	108.5	0.504	1.9
Cincinnati Reds	107.8	107.0	0.502	0.9
St. Louis Cardinals	105.0	105.7	0.498	-0.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	105.8	110.7	0.489	-4.9
Philadelphia Phillies	101.1	111.0	0.477	-9.9


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cincinnati Reds	9.4	8.5	0.527	1.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	9.4	8.5	0.525	0.9
San Francisco Giants	10.0	9.3	0.520	0.8
Milwaukee Braves	9.1	8.4	0.520	0.7
Chicago Cubs	8.3	8.2	0.504	0.1
St. Louis Cardinals	8.9	9.6	0.481	-0.7
Philadelphia Phillies	8.2	9.0	0.476	-0.8
Los Angeles Dodgers	9.1	10.0	0.477	-0.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Pittsburgh Pirates	73.9	68.8	0.518	5.0
San Francisco Giants	75.9	70.9	0.517	5.0
Milwaukee Braves	73.4	71.0	0.508	2.4
St. Louis Cardinals	73.0	72.2	0.503	0.8
Cincinnati Reds	71.7	72.1	0.499	-0.4
Philadelphia Phillies	72.5	73.1	0.498	-0.7
Los Angeles Dodgers	76.9	80.3	0.489	-3.4
Chicago Cubs	70.1	73.6	0.488	-3.5


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Los Angeles Dodgers	41.5	38.9	0.516	2.6
Chicago Cubs	43.8	42.1	0.510	1.7
San Francisco Giants	42.4	41.6	0.505	0.8
St. Louis Cardinals	44.2	43.4	0.505	0.8
Cincinnati Reds	42.4	43.2	0.495	-0.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	43.4	44.4	0.495	-0.9
Milwaukee Braves	43.7	45.5	0.490	-1.7
Philadelphia Phillies	43.4	46.8	0.481	-3.4

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1959 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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