1951 American League

1951 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1951 National League 1951 Major Leagues

1951 American League Leaders and Trailers
1951 Postseason
1951 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	154.0	98.0	56.0	252.0	210.0	42.4
Cleveland Indians	155.0	93.5	61.5	248.5	216.5	31.5
Boston Red Sox	154.0	87.0	67.0	241.0	221.0	19.7
Chicago White Sox	155.0	81.5	73.5	236.5	228.5	7.6
Detroit Tigers	154.0	73.0	81.0	227.0	235.0	-8.2
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	70.0	84.0	224.0	238.0	-14.7
Washington Senators I	154.0	62.0	92.0	216.0	246.0	-30.7
St. Louis Browns	154.0	52.0	102.0	206.0	256.0	-50.5

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	239.0	223.0	17.3	43.4
Cleveland Indians	239.6	225.4	14.7	40.7
Boston Red Sox	235.5	226.5	9.3	35.5
Chicago White Sox	235.7	229.3	6.8	33.3
Philadelphia Athletics	231.8	230.2	1.4	27.6
Detroit Tigers	230.7	231.3	0.4	26.6
Washington Senators I	224.8	237.2	-12.7	13.4
St. Louis Browns	218.7	243.3	-24.7	1.8


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	113.4	102.6	0.525	10.9
Boston Red Sox	110.9	105.5	0.512	5.3
Cleveland Indians	112.8	108.5	0.510	4.2
Philadelphia Athletics	107.6	104.8	0.507	2.8
Chicago White Sox	106.4	105.6	0.502	0.8
Detroit Tigers	106.2	107.7	0.496	-1.5
Washington Senators I	103.2	110.8	0.482	-7.6
St. Louis Browns	93.7	104.2	0.473	-10.5


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	10.5	9.6	0.523	0.9
Boston Red Sox	8.6	7.7	0.527	0.9
St. Louis Browns	8.7	8.1	0.519	0.6
Cleveland Indians	10.0	9.5	0.514	0.6
Detroit Tigers	8.7	8.8	0.498	-0.1
Washington Senators I	8.7	9.0	0.492	-0.3
Chicago White Sox	10.0	10.9	0.479	-0.9
Philadelphia Athletics	8.7	9.7	0.474	-1.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	73.4	65.2	0.530	8.2
Chicago White Sox	74.3	69.9	0.516	4.5
New York Yankees	70.9	67.7	0.511	3.2
Boston Red Sox	70.0	67.7	0.508	2.2
Detroit Tigers	70.4	69.3	0.504	1.2
Philadelphia Athletics	68.2	70.1	0.493	-1.9
Washington Senators I	68.8	71.2	0.491	-2.5
St. Louis Browns	71.0	80.1	0.470	-9.1


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Philadelphia Athletics	47.3	45.6	0.509	1.7
Chicago White Sox	44.6	43.3	0.508	1.4
Detroit Tigers	45.6	45.4	0.501	0.2
New York Yankees	43.6	43.7	0.499	-0.1
Boston Red Sox	45.7	45.9	0.499	-0.1
Cleveland Indians	42.5	43.1	0.496	-0.6
Washington Senators I	44.7	45.6	0.495	-0.9
St. Louis Browns	46.7	49.6	0.485	-2.8

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1951 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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