1941 American League

1941 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1941 National League 1941 Major Leagues

1941 American League Leaders and Trailers
1941 Postseason
1941 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
New York Yankees	156.0	102.0	54.0	258.0	210.0	48.0
Boston Red Sox	155.0	83.5	71.5	238.5	226.5	11.8
Chicago White Sox	156.0	78.0	78.0	234.0	234.0	-0.5
Cleveland Indians	155.0	75.5	79.5	230.5	234.5	-4.2
Detroit Tigers	155.0	75.5	79.5	230.5	234.5	-4.3
Washington Senators I	156.0	72.0	84.0	228.0	240.0	-12.8
St. Louis Browns	157.0	71.5	85.5	228.5	242.5	-14.4
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	64.0	90.0	218.0	244.0	-26.8

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
New York Yankees	244.2	223.8	21.5	48.0
Boston Red Sox	239.8	225.2	15.0	41.4
Cleveland Indians	233.9	231.1	3.8	30.1
St. Louis Browns	235.4	235.6	0.7	27.3
Detroit Tigers	231.4	233.6	-1.5	25.2
Chicago White Sox	231.6	236.4	-4.7	21.4
Washington Senators I	230.6	237.4	-6.9	19.7
Philadelphia Athletics	224.9	237.1	-12.2	14.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	116.0	104.1	0.527	12.0
New York Yankees	114.0	102.3	0.527	11.7
St. Louis Browns	115.2	109.1	0.513	6.0
Philadelphia Athletics	101.4	102.9	0.496	-1.5
Cleveland Indians	102.8	105.2	0.494	-2.3
Detroit Tigers	104.6	107.7	0.493	-3.2
Washington Senators I	102.5	106.3	0.491	-3.9
Chicago White Sox	99.3	109.6	0.475	-10.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	10.8	9.7	0.528	1.2
Detroit Tigers	10.3	9.4	0.522	0.9
Washington Senators I	10.2	9.5	0.517	0.7
New York Yankees	10.6	10.2	0.510	0.4
Philadelphia Athletics	9.4	9.5	0.497	-0.1
Cleveland Indians	9.9	10.0	0.497	-0.1
Chicago White Sox	10.9	11.2	0.494	-0.3
St. Louis Browns	10.5	10.9	0.490	-0.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	72.9	68.9	0.514	4.1
Cleveland Indians	72.6	69.0	0.513	3.5
Detroit Tigers	72.8	69.3	0.512	3.4
Boston Red Sox	66.4	64.2	0.509	2.2
New York Yankees	69.9	68.2	0.506	1.6
Washington Senators I	69.2	70.0	0.497	-0.7
St. Louis Browns	64.3	67.1	0.489	-2.8
Philadelphia Athletics	66.5	73.6	0.474	-7.2


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	49.2	43.5	0.530	5.6
Cleveland Indians	48.4	47.2	0.506	1.2
Chicago White Sox	48.0	47.1	0.505	1.0
Philadelphia Athletics	49.0	49.7	0.496	-0.7
St. Louis Browns	46.2	47.6	0.493	-1.4
Washington Senators I	49.2	51.1	0.490	-1.9
Boston Red Sox	45.8	48.0	0.488	-2.2
Detroit Tigers	44.3	46.6	0.487	-2.3

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1941 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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