1963 American League

1963 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1963 National League 1963 Major Leagues

1963 American League Leaders and Trailers
1963 Postseason
1963 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	161.0	104.0	57.0	265.0	218.0	47.5
Chicago White Sox	162.0	94.0	68.0	256.0	230.0	25.6
Minnesota Twins	161.0	91.0	70.0	252.0	231.0	21.1
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	86.0	76.0	248.0	238.0	9.5
Detroit Tigers	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-4.3
Cleveland Indians	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-4.5
Boston Red Sox	161.0	76.0	85.0	237.0	246.0	-9.7
Kansas City Athletics	162.0	73.0	89.0	235.0	251.0	-16.5
Los Angeles Angels	161.0	70.0	91.0	231.0	252.0	-21.6
Washington Senators II	162.0	56.0	106.0	218.0	268.0	-50.7

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
Minnesota Twins	249.8	233.2	16.9	43.7
New York Yankees	248.7	234.3	16.3	43.0
Chicago White Sox	250.3	235.7	15.4	42.6
Baltimore Orioles	244.0	242.0	2.5	29.7
Boston Red Sox	242.6	240.4	2.4	29.5
Detroit Tigers	243.0	243.0	0.7	27.9
Cleveland Indians	242.2	243.8	-1.3	26.2
Los Angeles Angels	238.4	244.6	-5.9	21.3
Kansas City Athletics	236.3	249.7	-11.6	15.8
Washington Senators II	233.5	252.5	-19.4	8.3


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Minnesota Twins	121.4	108.7	0.528	12.7
New York Yankees	117.5	114.2	0.507	3.3
Detroit Tigers	113.2	110.0	0.507	3.3
Boston Red Sox	114.5	111.6	0.506	2.9
Cleveland Indians	110.5	108.6	0.504	1.9
Baltimore Orioles	113.2	112.4	0.502	0.9
Chicago White Sox	113.1	113.3	0.500	-0.2
Los Angeles Angels	107.4	111.9	0.490	-4.5
Kansas City Athletics	106.7	112.3	0.487	-5.6
Washington Senators II	102.7	109.8	0.483	-7.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	11.1	9.8	0.532	1.3
New York Yankees	9.5	8.4	0.530	1.1
Washington Senators II	8.2	7.5	0.522	0.7
Boston Red Sox	9.3	8.6	0.518	0.7
Cleveland Indians	9.9	9.3	0.515	0.6
Baltimore Orioles	10.4	9.9	0.514	0.5
Minnesota Twins	8.4	8.1	0.509	0.3
Los Angeles Angels	10.1	10.8	0.483	-0.7
Chicago White Sox	10.0	11.0	0.474	-1.1
Kansas City Athletics	9.3	11.5	0.447	-2.2


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago White Sox	81.5	68.4	0.544	13.2
New York Yankees	77.2	69.5	0.526	7.7
Los Angeles Angels	77.4	75.5	0.506	2.0
Minnesota Twins	77.2	75.8	0.505	1.4
Baltimore Orioles	75.9	75.2	0.502	0.7
Boston Red Sox	75.6	76.2	0.498	-0.6
Cleveland Indians	78.8	81.5	0.492	-2.7
Kansas City Athletics	77.0	80.0	0.490	-3.0
Detroit Tigers	75.5	80.9	0.483	-5.4
Washington Senators II	76.9	83.2	0.481	-6.2


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	43.7	41.8	0.511	1.9
New York Yankees	44.3	42.6	0.510	1.7
Chicago White Sox	44.8	43.9	0.505	0.9
Minnesota Twins	42.0	41.3	0.504	0.7
Baltimore Orioles	44.9	44.2	0.504	0.7
Kansas City Athletics	44.7	44.4	0.502	0.3
Boston Red Sox	43.6	43.7	0.499	-0.1
Cleveland Indians	43.4	44.1	0.496	-0.7
Los Angeles Angels	43.9	46.0	0.488	-2.2
Washington Senators II	46.7	51.0	0.478	-4.3

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1963 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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