1955 American League

1955 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1955 National League 1955 Major Leagues

1955 American League Leaders and Trailers
1955 Postseason
1955 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	96.0	58.0	250.0	212.0	38.0
Cleveland Indians	154.0	93.0	61.0	247.0	215.0	32.0
Chicago White Sox	155.0	91.5	63.5	246.5	218.5	28.1
Boston Red Sox	154.0	84.0	70.0	238.0	224.0	13.9
Detroit Tigers	154.0	79.0	75.0	233.0	229.0	3.5
Kansas City Athletics	155.0	63.5	91.5	218.5	246.5	-28.2
Baltimore Orioles	156.0	58.0	98.0	214.0	254.0	-40.3
Washington Senators I	154.0	53.0	101.0	207.0	255.0	-48.3

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
Chicago White Sox	241.1	223.9	18.4	44.8
New York Yankees	239.3	222.7	18.2	44.5
Cleveland Indians	237.7	224.3	14.7	41.0
Boston Red Sox	236.6	225.4	12.1	38.3
Detroit Tigers	235.6	226.4	9.6	35.6
Washington Senators I	223.1	238.9	-15.4	10.8
Kansas City Athletics	221.8	243.2	-20.5	6.5
Baltimore Orioles	223.4	244.6	-20.9	5.9


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	112.3	102.9	0.522	9.4
Cleveland Indians	113.3	103.9	0.522	9.4
Detroit Tigers	110.9	106.1	0.511	4.8
Chicago White Sox	112.3	108.3	0.509	4.0
Boston Red Sox	111.3	109.4	0.504	1.9
Kansas City Athletics	97.1	101.3	0.490	-4.2
Washington Senators I	101.4	108.1	0.484	-6.7
Baltimore Orioles	101.8	114.5	0.471	-12.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	10.6	8.3	0.558	2.2
New York Yankees	9.2	7.3	0.557	1.9
Boston Red Sox	9.2	7.4	0.555	1.8
Chicago White Sox	9.3	9.2	0.503	0.1
Kansas City Athletics	7.7	8.0	0.488	-0.4
Washington Senators I	7.9	8.9	0.471	-1.0
Cleveland Indians	8.4	9.7	0.463	-1.3
Baltimore Orioles	8.1	9.9	0.449	-1.8


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	75.9	68.0	0.528	7.9
Cleveland Indians	76.8	70.9	0.520	5.9
Boston Red Sox	74.1	68.5	0.520	5.6
Detroit Tigers	71.0	70.0	0.504	1.0
New York Yankees	73.0	72.5	0.502	0.5
Baltimore Orioles	70.4	72.8	0.492	-2.4
Washington Senators I	70.3	72.8	0.492	-2.4
Kansas City Athletics	73.1	83.7	0.466	-10.5


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	44.9	39.9	0.530	5.0
Chicago White Sox	43.1	38.9	0.525	4.1
Boston Red Sox	41.6	40.4	0.507	1.1
Detroit Tigers	42.8	42.3	0.503	0.6
Cleveland Indians	39.0	40.0	0.494	-1.0
Baltimore Orioles	44.1	46.4	0.487	-2.4
Kansas City Athletics	45.6	48.4	0.485	-2.8
Washington Senators I	44.2	48.4	0.477	-4.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1955 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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