1954 American League

1954 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1954 National League 1954 Major Leagues

1954 American League Leaders and Trailers
1954 Postseason
1954 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
Cleveland Indians	156.0	112.0	44.0	268.0	200.0	68.0
New York Yankees	155.0	103.5	51.5	258.5	206.5	52.0
Chicago White Sox	155.0	94.5	60.5	249.5	215.5	34.5
Boston Red Sox	156.0	70.0	86.0	226.0	242.0	-16.3
Detroit Tigers	155.0	68.5	86.5	223.5	241.5	-18.4
Washington Senators I	155.0	66.5	88.5	221.5	243.5	-22.1
Baltimore Orioles	154.0	54.0	100.0	208.0	254.0	-46.3
Philadelphia Athletics	156.0	52.0	104.0	208.0	260.0	-52.3

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
Cleveland Indians	248.2	219.8	29.8	57.1
New York Yankees	243.0	222.0	21.8	49.2
Chicago White Sox	240.0	225.0	15.9	43.0
Boston Red Sox	234.7	233.3	1.9	29.4
Washington Senators I	231.5	233.5	-1.7	25.2
Detroit Tigers	228.7	236.3	-7.1	20.1
Baltimore Orioles	225.6	236.4	-10.4	16.6
Philadelphia Athletics	218.1	249.9	-31.9	-4.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	115.3	101.2	0.533	14.1
Cleveland Indians	116.5	105.1	0.526	11.4
Boston Red Sox	112.1	105.4	0.516	6.7
Chicago White Sox	114.2	111.0	0.507	3.3
Washington Senators I	109.6	112.4	0.494	-2.8
Detroit Tigers	105.5	110.0	0.489	-4.6
Philadelphia Athletics	92.9	102.7	0.475	-9.8
Baltimore Orioles	97.3	109.1	0.471	-11.9


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Washington Senators I	8.8	7.6	0.538	1.2
New York Yankees	9.5	8.4	0.530	1.1
Chicago White Sox	10.9	9.8	0.526	1.1
Philadelphia Athletics	7.7	7.9	0.494	-0.2
Detroit Tigers	9.0	9.3	0.490	-0.4
Boston Red Sox	9.1	9.5	0.488	-0.4
Baltimore Orioles	7.9	8.4	0.485	-0.5
Cleveland Indians	9.0	9.5	0.486	-0.5


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	78.4	65.6	0.545	12.8
Chicago White Sox	72.1	66.4	0.520	5.6
Baltimore Orioles	74.4	71.9	0.508	2.5
New York Yankees	72.0	69.6	0.508	2.3
Washington Senators I	69.2	68.2	0.504	1.0
Boston Red Sox	69.1	71.3	0.492	-2.2
Detroit Tigers	69.6	73.3	0.487	-3.7
Philadelphia Athletics	70.9	84.0	0.458	-13.1


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	42.1	38.4	0.523	3.7
New York Yankees	45.6	43.3	0.513	2.3
Detroit Tigers	45.2	43.0	0.512	2.2
Cleveland Indians	43.0	40.8	0.513	2.1
Baltimore Orioles	46.4	46.6	0.499	-0.2
Washington Senators I	43.6	45.4	0.490	-1.8
Boston Red Sox	44.7	46.8	0.489	-2.0
Philadelphia Athletics	48.6	53.3	0.477	-4.7

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1954 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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