1949 American League

1949 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1949 National League 1949 Major Leagues

1949 American League Leaders and Trailers
1949 Postseason
1949 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	155.0	97.5	57.5	252.5	212.5	40.3
Boston Red Sox	155.0	96.5	58.5	251.5	213.5	38.0
Cleveland Indians	154.0	89.0	65.0	243.0	219.0	23.4
Detroit Tigers	155.0	87.5	67.5	242.5	222.5	20.0
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	81.0	73.0	235.0	227.0	7.7
Chicago White Sox	154.0	63.0	91.0	217.0	245.0	-28.5
St. Louis Browns	155.0	53.5	101.5	208.5	256.5	-48.3
Washington Senators I	154.0	50.0	104.0	204.0	258.0	-54.6

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
Boston Red Sox	244.0	221.0	23.5	50.2
New York Yankees	238.7	226.3	13.8	41.0
Detroit Tigers	238.7	226.3	13.3	40.0
Cleveland Indians	236.3	225.7	10.3	36.9
Philadelphia Athletics	230.9	231.1	-0.1	26.4
Chicago White Sox	226.6	235.4	-8.4	18.4
Washington Senators I	222.6	239.4	-17.0	9.8
St. Louis Browns	222.5	242.5	-20.0	7.2


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	116.2	102.9	0.530	13.4
New York Yankees	110.0	100.9	0.521	9.1
Detroit Tigers	111.0	108.9	0.505	2.1
Philadelphia Athletics	106.1	105.4	0.502	0.7
Cleveland Indians	109.5	110.0	0.499	-0.6
St. Louis Browns	99.0	105.4	0.484	-6.4
Chicago White Sox	102.4	110.2	0.482	-7.8
Washington Senators I	101.0	109.3	0.480	-8.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	10.4	8.5	0.551	1.9
New York Yankees	9.9	8.8	0.529	1.1
Philadelphia Athletics	9.1	8.0	0.531	1.0
Cleveland Indians	9.3	8.6	0.520	0.7
Washington Senators I	8.8	8.3	0.513	0.4
Chicago White Sox	9.8	10.0	0.495	-0.2
Detroit Tigers	9.8	10.2	0.489	-0.4
St. Louis Browns	7.9	8.5	0.481	-0.6


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	74.1	66.3	0.528	7.8
Cleveland Indians	73.3	65.8	0.527	7.5
Boston Red Sox	71.5	67.9	0.513	3.7
New York Yankees	75.3	74.7	0.502	0.6
Chicago White Sox	70.5	71.1	0.498	-0.7
Washington Senators I	67.7	71.5	0.486	-3.8
Philadelphia Athletics	69.8	74.0	0.486	-4.1
St. Louis Browns	68.9	74.1	0.482	-5.2


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	46.2	43.4	0.516	2.8
New York Yankees	43.4	42.0	0.508	1.4
Boston Red Sox	44.4	43.3	0.506	1.1
Cleveland Indians	43.1	42.3	0.505	0.8
Chicago White Sox	44.3	43.6	0.504	0.7
Detroit Tigers	42.6	42.0	0.503	0.6
Washington Senators I	45.9	49.5	0.482	-3.5
St. Louis Browns	47.8	53.4	0.472	-5.6

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1949 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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