1953 American League

1953 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1953 National League 1953 Major Leagues

1953 American League Leaders and Trailers
1953 Postseason
1953 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	151.0	99.0	52.0	250.0	203.0	46.7
Cleveland Indians	155.0	92.5	62.5	247.5	217.5	29.8
Chicago White Sox	156.0	90.0	66.0	246.0	222.0	23.6
Boston Red Sox	153.0	84.0	69.0	237.0	222.0	14.9
Washington Senators I	152.0	76.0	76.0	228.0	228.0	-0.7
Detroit Tigers	158.0	62.0	96.0	220.0	254.0	-34.2
Philadelphia Athletics	157.0	60.5	96.5	217.5	253.5	-36.4
St. Louis Browns	154.0	54.0	100.0	208.0	254.0	-46.4

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	237.8	215.2	22.8	49.2
Cleveland Indians	243.2	221.8	22.1	48.8
Boston Red Sox	232.8	226.2	7.1	33.9
Chicago White Sox	236.3	231.7	5.3	32.6
Washington Senators I	230.0	226.0	4.2	30.4
Detroit Tigers	230.1	243.9	-13.8	14.0
Philadelphia Athletics	228.2	242.8	-14.5	12.8
St. Louis Browns	223.0	239.0	-15.3	11.9


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	115.1	99.2	0.537	15.9
Cleveland Indians	115.7	101.1	0.534	14.6
Boston Red Sox	102.9	104.1	0.497	-1.1
Detroit Tigers	105.0	106.8	0.496	-1.8
Washington Senators I	106.8	108.7	0.496	-1.9
Chicago White Sox	107.6	111.3	0.492	-3.7
Philadelphia Athletics	104.2	112.4	0.481	-8.3
St. Louis Browns	99.1	108.1	0.478	-9.0


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	9.1	8.0	0.532	1.1
Washington Senators I	9.9	8.9	0.527	1.0
Detroit Tigers	8.8	8.5	0.508	0.3
Chicago White Sox	10.8	10.6	0.505	0.2
Boston Red Sox	9.5	9.4	0.503	0.1
Philadelphia Athletics	8.4	8.4	0.501	0.0
New York Yankees	9.2	9.8	0.483	-0.6
St. Louis Browns	7.7	8.7	0.471	-1.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	74.9	69.0	0.520	5.8
Boston Red Sox	72.7	68.0	0.517	4.7
Cleveland Indians	72.3	69.2	0.511	3.1
Washington Senators I	70.6	67.8	0.510	2.8
New York Yankees	68.3	66.1	0.508	2.2
St. Louis Browns	72.3	73.2	0.497	-1.0
Philadelphia Athletics	70.8	75.1	0.485	-4.4
Detroit Tigers	73.4	79.7	0.479	-6.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	44.1	41.2	0.517	2.9
Boston Red Sox	47.1	45.2	0.510	1.9
Chicago White Sox	42.8	41.0	0.511	1.8
Washington Senators I	42.1	41.0	0.507	1.1
Cleveland Indians	45.0	44.6	0.502	0.3
Philadelphia Athletics	45.7	46.0	0.498	-0.3
St. Louis Browns	44.9	48.0	0.483	-3.1
Detroit Tigers	43.8	48.1	0.477	-4.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1953 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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