1940 American League

1940 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1940 National League 1940 Major Leagues

1940 American League Leaders and Trailers
1940 Postseason
1940 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	155.0	90.5	64.5	245.5	219.5	25.8
Cleveland Indians	155.0	89.5	65.5	244.5	220.5	23.5
New York Yankees	155.0	88.0	67.0	243.0	222.0	21.4
Chicago White Sox	155.0	83.0	72.0	238.0	227.0	10.8
Boston Red Sox	154.0	82.0	72.0	236.0	226.0	9.6
St. Louis Browns	156.0	68.0	88.0	224.0	244.0	-20.6
Washington Senators I	154.0	64.0	90.0	218.0	244.0	-27.2
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	54.0	100.0	208.0	254.0	-46.2

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
Detroit Tigers	241.3	223.7	18.3	44.8
New York Yankees	239.8	225.2	16.1	42.3
Cleveland Indians	239.1	225.9	13.5	39.8
Chicago White Sox	234.9	230.1	5.2	31.2
Boston Red Sox	232.2	229.8	2.9	29.4
St. Louis Browns	230.5	237.5	-7.3	19.5
Philadelphia Athletics	223.6	238.4	-14.3	11.9
Washington Senators I	223.9	238.1	-14.1	11.9


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	116.2	103.6	0.529	12.6
New York Yankees	112.1	104.2	0.518	8.0
Boston Red Sox	110.4	102.5	0.518	7.9
Cleveland Indians	105.4	108.1	0.494	-2.7
St. Louis Browns	103.3	106.8	0.492	-3.6
Philadelphia Athletics	100.9	105.4	0.489	-4.5
Chicago White Sox	105.8	111.0	0.488	-5.2
Washington Senators I	100.3	106.8	0.484	-6.5


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	10.4	8.7	0.544	1.7
Cleveland Indians	9.8	8.7	0.528	1.1
St. Louis Browns	9.2	8.7	0.513	0.5
Philadelphia Athletics	9.0	9.0	0.501	0.0
Detroit Tigers	10.2	10.2	0.500	0.0
Boston Red Sox	9.1	9.3	0.496	-0.1
Washington Senators I	10.1	10.5	0.491	-0.4
Chicago White Sox	10.4	10.9	0.487	-0.5


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	76.0	67.6	0.529	8.4
Chicago White Sox	71.7	65.3	0.523	6.4
Detroit Tigers	71.2	66.4	0.518	4.9
New York Yankees	71.3	69.6	0.506	1.6
Washington Senators I	67.7	70.1	0.491	-2.4
St. Louis Browns	69.3	71.9	0.491	-2.6
Boston Red Sox	66.8	70.5	0.486	-3.7
Philadelphia Athletics	68.9	72.9	0.486	-4.0


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	46.8	42.6	0.523	4.2
New York Yankees	45.8	43.0	0.515	2.7
Chicago White Sox	46.1	43.8	0.513	2.3
St. Louis Browns	49.2	49.6	0.498	-0.4
Boston Red Sox	46.3	47.0	0.496	-0.7
Detroit Tigers	42.7	44.6	0.489	-1.9
Washington Senators I	47.0	49.5	0.487	-2.5
Philadelphia Athletics	45.8	50.0	0.478	-4.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1940 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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