1962 American League

1962 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1962 National League 1962 Major Leagues

1962 American League Leaders and Trailers
1962 Postseason
1962 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	162.0	96.0	66.0	258.0	228.0	30.3
Minnesota Twins	163.0	91.5	71.5	254.5	234.5	19.5
Los Angeles Angels	162.0	86.0	76.0	248.0	238.0	9.3
Detroit Tigers	161.0	85.0	76.0	246.0	237.0	8.8
Chicago White Sox	162.0	85.0	77.0	247.0	239.0	7.7
Cleveland Indians	162.0	80.0	82.0	242.0	244.0	-2.4
Boston Red Sox	160.0	76.0	84.0	236.0	244.0	-8.1
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	77.0	85.0	239.0	247.0	-8.6
Kansas City Athletics	162.0	72.0	90.0	234.0	252.0	-18.0
Washington Senators II	162.0	60.5	101.5	222.5	263.5	-41.5

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
New York Yankees	250.6	235.4	15.9	43.3
Minnesota Twins	251.1	237.9	13.7	41.2
Detroit Tigers	246.4	236.6	10.5	37.9
Chicago White Sox	247.3	238.7	8.9	36.3
Los Angeles Angels	243.0	243.0	0.8	28.8
Baltimore Orioles	241.5	244.5	-1.9	25.6
Cleveland Indians	240.7	245.3	-4.4	23.1
Boston Red Sox	237.3	242.7	-4.8	22.4
Kansas City Athletics	237.5	248.5	-10.6	17.2
Washington Senators II	237.1	248.9	-10.7	17.1


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	123.3	114.1	0.519	9.1
Minnesota Twins	121.9	113.6	0.517	8.2
Detroit Tigers	114.0	109.6	0.510	4.4
Chicago White Sox	114.8	114.6	0.501	0.2
Kansas City Athletics	108.2	108.3	0.500	-0.1
Cleveland Indians	112.6	112.8	0.500	-0.2
Baltimore Orioles	115.0	115.4	0.499	-0.4
Los Angeles Angels	105.6	107.8	0.495	-2.2
Boston Red Sox	107.3	109.9	0.494	-2.6
Washington Senators II	104.1	113.5	0.478	-9.4


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Los Angeles Angels	9.8	8.3	0.542	1.5
Minnesota Twins	9.5	8.1	0.538	1.3
Chicago White Sox	10.8	10.0	0.519	0.8
Detroit Tigers	9.0	8.4	0.517	0.6
New York Yankees	8.7	8.4	0.510	0.3
Cleveland Indians	8.6	8.3	0.509	0.3
Kansas City Athletics	10.1	9.9	0.506	0.2
Washington Senators II	8.9	9.0	0.498	-0.1
Boston Red Sox	8.4	8.7	0.492	-0.3
Baltimore Orioles	8.3	9.5	0.467	-1.2


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	76.4	71.6	0.516	4.8
New York Yankees	74.2	69.7	0.515	4.4
Los Angeles Angels	81.7	77.7	0.513	4.0
Detroit Tigers	80.1	76.2	0.512	3.9
Minnesota Twins	76.9	75.0	0.506	1.9
Washington Senators II	80.9	79.9	0.503	0.9
Boston Red Sox	77.6	77.9	0.499	-0.3
Baltimore Orioles	76.2	77.0	0.497	-0.9
Cleveland Indians	76.3	79.6	0.490	-3.3
Kansas City Athletics	75.2	83.9	0.473	-8.7


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	44.7	42.9	0.510	1.8
Baltimore Orioles	43.1	41.5	0.509	1.6
Minnesota Twins	42.2	41.8	0.502	0.4
Detroit Tigers	43.0	42.6	0.502	0.4
New York Yankees	43.7	43.9	0.499	-0.2
Kansas City Athletics	45.0	45.4	0.497	-0.5
Cleveland Indians	43.7	44.3	0.496	-0.6
Boston Red Sox	44.6	45.6	0.494	-1.1
Washington Senators II	44.2	45.4	0.493	-1.2
Los Angeles Angels	46.5	48.7	0.489	-2.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1962 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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