1960 American League

1960 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1960 National League 1960 Major Leagues

1960 American League Leaders and Trailers
1960 Postseason
1960 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	155.0	97.5	57.5	252.5	212.5	39.4
Baltimore Orioles	154.0	89.0	65.0	243.0	219.0	24.0
Chicago White Sox	154.0	87.0	67.0	241.0	221.0	19.7
Cleveland Indians	154.0	76.0	78.0	230.0	232.0	-2.3
Washington Senators I	154.0	73.0	81.0	227.0	235.0	-8.9
Detroit Tigers	154.0	71.0	83.0	225.0	237.0	-12.2
Boston Red Sox	154.0	65.0	89.0	219.0	243.0	-24.8
Kansas City Athletics	155.0	58.5	96.5	213.5	251.5	-38.2

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	239.3	225.7	14.2	40.9
Chicago White Sox	236.5	225.5	11.4	37.8
Baltimore Orioles	234.7	227.3	8.3	34.7
Washington Senators I	232.5	229.5	2.8	29.4
Detroit Tigers	232.5	229.5	2.9	29.2
Cleveland Indians	228.2	233.8	-5.6	20.8
Boston Red Sox	227.9	234.1	-6.2	20.3
Kansas City Athletics	224.7	240.3	-14.6	11.9


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	113.2	104.4	0.520	8.8
Chicago White Sox	108.0	104.0	0.509	4.0
Boston Red Sox	105.2	103.6	0.504	1.6
Baltimore Orioles	109.4	108.6	0.502	0.8
Washington Senators I	106.7	105.9	0.502	0.8
Cleveland Indians	104.8	105.7	0.498	-0.9
Detroit Tigers	108.5	111.5	0.493	-3.0
Kansas City Athletics	102.4	109.0	0.484	-6.6


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	12.0	10.2	0.541	1.8
Cleveland Indians	9.1	8.4	0.520	0.7
Washington Senators I	8.7	8.1	0.517	0.6
New York Yankees	8.5	8.0	0.516	0.5
Baltimore Orioles	8.6	8.5	0.503	0.1
Detroit Tigers	8.5	8.5	0.499	-0.0
Kansas City Athletics	8.3	8.8	0.485	-0.5
Boston Red Sox	7.4	8.5	0.465	-1.1


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	74.5	70.4	0.514	4.1
Chicago White Sox	73.2	69.1	0.514	4.0
Baltimore Orioles	74.6	70.8	0.513	3.8
Washington Senators I	73.4	70.8	0.509	2.6
New York Yankees	72.5	72.5	0.500	-0.1
Boston Red Sox	72.9	74.2	0.495	-1.4
Cleveland Indians	74.7	78.7	0.487	-4.0
Kansas City Athletics	71.5	76.3	0.484	-4.8


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	45.1	40.8	0.525	4.3
Baltimore Orioles	41.8	39.7	0.513	2.1
Detroit Tigers	40.4	39.8	0.504	0.6
Chicago White Sox	42.9	42.6	0.502	0.3
Cleveland Indians	40.2	40.3	0.499	-0.1
Kansas City Athletics	43.6	45.1	0.492	-1.5
Washington Senators I	43.3	44.9	0.491	-1.6
Boston Red Sox	43.1	47.1	0.478	-4.0

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1960 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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