1945 American League

1945 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1945 National League 1945 Major Leagues

1945 American League Leaders and Trailers
1945 Postseason
1945 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	89.0	66.0	244.0	221.0	23.7
Washington Senators I	156.0	88.0	68.0	244.0	224.0	19.4
St. Louis Browns	154.0	82.5	71.5	236.5	225.5	11.4
New York Yankees	152.0	81.0	71.0	233.0	223.0	10.1
Cleveland Indians	147.0	74.0	73.0	221.0	220.0	0.7
Chicago White Sox	150.0	71.5	78.5	221.5	228.5	-7.5
Boston Red Sox	157.0	72.5	84.5	229.5	241.5	-12.0
Philadelphia Athletics	153.0	53.5	99.5	206.5	252.5	-46.5

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	234.8	221.2	14.0	39.3
Detroit Tigers	237.5	227.5	11.1	37.2
Washington Senators I	238.9	229.1	9.6	35.6
St. Louis Browns	233.3	228.7	4.9	30.7
Cleveland Indians	222.4	218.6	4.3	29.2
Boston Red Sox	232.7	238.3	-5.3	21.0
Chicago White Sox	221.5	228.5	-7.3	17.7
Philadelphia Athletics	221.0	238.0	-16.9	9.1


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	110.0	101.0	0.521	9.0
Detroit Tigers	105.3	102.3	0.507	2.9
Washington Senators I	109.7	106.8	0.507	2.9
Cleveland Indians	99.0	96.3	0.507	2.7
Boston Red Sox	107.2	105.1	0.505	2.1
St. Louis Browns	107.6	110.6	0.493	-3.0
Chicago White Sox	96.1	99.9	0.490	-3.8
Philadelphia Athletics	97.3	105.9	0.479	-8.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	12.3	10.9	0.530	1.4
New York Yankees	11.1	10.5	0.514	0.6
Washington Senators I	13.3	12.8	0.511	0.6
Boston Red Sox	11.0	11.0	0.500	0.0
Detroit Tigers	11.2	11.2	0.499	-0.0
St. Louis Browns	10.4	10.5	0.498	-0.1
Philadelphia Athletics	10.2	10.6	0.491	-0.4
Cleveland Indians	9.2	9.8	0.484	-0.6


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Browns	68.0	62.7	0.521	5.4
Washington Senators I	66.8	61.9	0.519	5.0
Detroit Tigers	69.3	65.2	0.516	4.2
Cleveland Indians	66.2	64.4	0.507	1.8
New York Yankees	64.5	63.0	0.506	1.5
Chicago White Sox	63.2	64.5	0.495	-1.3
Philadelphia Athletics	63.3	68.9	0.479	-5.6
Boston Red Sox	63.4	69.9	0.476	-6.5


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	50.7	49.8	0.504	0.8
New York Yankees	48.3	47.6	0.503	0.6
St. Louis Browns	46.2	46.0	0.502	0.3
Philadelphia Athletics	51.4	51.4	0.500	0.0
Boston Red Sox	51.7	51.8	0.500	-0.1
Washington Senators I	48.2	48.5	0.498	-0.4
Cleveland Indians	47.8	48.3	0.498	-0.4
Chicago White Sox	50.3	52.8	0.488	-2.5

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1945 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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