1950 American League

1950 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1950 National League 1950 Major Leagues

1950 American League Leaders and Trailers
1950 Postseason
1950 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	98.5	56.5	253.5	211.5	41.9
Detroit Tigers	157.0	96.5	60.5	253.5	217.5	35.8
Boston Red Sox	154.0	94.0	60.0	248.0	214.0	33.6
Cleveland Indians	155.0	92.5	62.5	247.5	217.5	29.5
Washington Senators I	155.0	67.5	87.5	222.5	242.5	-20.2
Chicago White Sox	156.0	61.0	95.0	217.0	251.0	-34.2
St. Louis Browns	154.0	58.0	96.0	212.0	250.0	-38.2
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	52.0	102.0	206.0	256.0	-50.0

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	241.3	223.7	18.5	45.4
Cleveland Indians	241.1	223.9	17.5	44.2
Boston Red Sox	239.7	222.3	17.6	44.1
Detroit Tigers	242.0	229.0	13.7	40.6
Washington Senators I	228.8	236.2	-7.6	19.1
Chicago White Sox	229.4	238.6	-9.2	17.8
St. Louis Browns	225.1	236.9	-11.2	15.6
Philadelphia Athletics	222.3	239.7	-16.9	9.7


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	117.7	105.4	0.528	12.4
New York Yankees	112.6	101.3	0.526	11.3
Cleveland Indians	113.0	106.4	0.515	6.6
Detroit Tigers	115.3	108.9	0.514	6.4
Philadelphia Athletics	103.9	109.8	0.486	-5.9
Washington Senators I	103.4	111.3	0.482	-7.9
St. Louis Browns	96.1	104.1	0.480	-8.1
Chicago White Sox	102.8	113.6	0.475	-10.8


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	9.5	7.7	0.553	1.8
Cleveland Indians	9.5	8.4	0.531	1.1
Washington Senators I	8.6	7.6	0.531	1.0
New York Yankees	9.2	8.3	0.525	0.9
Chicago White Sox	8.2	7.7	0.518	0.6
St. Louis Browns	7.7	7.4	0.509	0.3
Detroit Tigers	9.1	8.9	0.505	0.2
Philadelphia Athletics	7.9	8.8	0.473	-0.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	76.1	70.6	0.519	5.5
Detroit Tigers	72.9	70.9	0.507	1.9
New York Yankees	76.6	74.8	0.506	1.8
Chicago White Sox	73.2	71.7	0.505	1.6
Boston Red Sox	71.4	70.1	0.505	1.4
Washington Senators I	72.1	70.7	0.505	1.4
St. Louis Browns	74.0	74.5	0.498	-0.5
Philadelphia Athletics	68.6	75.1	0.478	-6.5


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	44.0	41.0	0.518	3.0
Cleveland Indians	41.4	39.7	0.511	1.7
New York Yankees	41.9	40.3	0.510	1.7
Chicago White Sox	45.4	45.4	0.500	-0.0
Boston Red Sox	39.9	40.3	0.497	-0.4
Philadelphia Athletics	43.5	44.4	0.495	-0.9
Washington Senators I	44.8	46.5	0.490	-1.8
St. Louis Browns	47.9	50.4	0.487	-2.5

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1950 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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