1959 American League

1959 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1959 National League 1959 Major Leagues

1959 American League Leaders and Trailers
1959 Postseason
1959 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
Chicago White Sox	156.0	95.0	61.0	251.0	217.0	33.8
Cleveland Indians	154.0	89.0	65.0	243.0	219.0	23.3
New York Yankees	155.0	79.5	75.5	234.5	230.5	3.8
Detroit Tigers	154.0	76.0	78.0	230.0	232.0	-2.4
Boston Red Sox	154.0	75.0	79.0	229.0	233.0	-4.8
Baltimore Orioles	155.0	74.5	80.5	229.5	235.5	-6.1
Kansas City Athletics	154.0	66.0	88.0	220.0	242.0	-22.6
Washington Senators I	154.0	63.0	91.0	217.0	245.0	-28.5

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
Chicago White Sox	238.6	229.4	10.4	36.4
New York Yankees	234.5	230.5	4.3	30.3
Detroit Tigers	233.2	228.8	4.6	30.3
Cleveland Indians	232.8	229.2	3.2	28.8
Boston Red Sox	232.1	229.9	2.4	28.1
Baltimore Orioles	230.8	234.2	-2.8	23.0
Kansas City Athletics	229.2	232.8	-3.4	22.4
Washington Senators I	229.4	232.6	-3.8	21.7


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	110.2	104.7	0.513	5.5
Boston Red Sox	111.6	106.9	0.511	4.7
Detroit Tigers	109.7	105.2	0.511	4.5
New York Yankees	109.3	108.3	0.502	0.9
Kansas City Athletics	104.2	104.4	0.500	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	106.2	106.8	0.498	-0.6
Washington Senators I	103.9	106.7	0.493	-2.8
Baltimore Orioles	103.8	111.9	0.481	-8.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	10.2	7.8	0.566	2.4
Chicago White Sox	11.0	9.8	0.530	1.2
Detroit Tigers	9.5	8.3	0.535	1.2
Kansas City Athletics	8.7	8.1	0.519	0.6
New York Yankees	9.0	9.0	0.501	0.0
Washington Senators I	7.7	8.3	0.483	-0.5
Cleveland Indians	8.3	8.9	0.482	-0.6
Baltimore Orioles	7.1	8.5	0.455	-1.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Baltimore Orioles	75.3	69.7	0.519	5.6
Chicago White Sox	77.2	71.8	0.518	5.4
Washington Senators I	72.6	70.7	0.507	1.9
New York Yankees	72.9	72.1	0.503	0.8
Detroit Tigers	73.5	73.5	0.500	-0.1
Kansas City Athletics	70.9	73.3	0.492	-2.5
Cleveland Indians	73.0	75.5	0.492	-2.5
Boston Red Sox	69.6	72.4	0.490	-2.8


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	43.8	41.4	0.514	2.4
New York Yankees	43.0	41.3	0.510	1.7
Cleveland Indians	41.6	39.9	0.511	1.7
Baltimore Orioles	44.3	44.3	0.500	-0.0
Boston Red Sox	41.3	42.3	0.494	-1.0
Kansas City Athletics	45.6	46.9	0.493	-1.3
Detroit Tigers	40.2	42.1	0.489	-1.8
Washington Senators I	44.6	47.4	0.485	-2.8

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1959 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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