1968 American League

1968 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1968 National League 1968 Major Leagues

1968 American League Leaders and Trailers
1968 Postseason
1968 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
Detroit Tigers	164.0	104.0	60.0	268.0	224.0	43.7
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	91.0	71.0	253.0	233.0	19.4
Cleveland Indians	162.0	86.5	75.5	248.5	237.5	11.0
Boston Red Sox	162.0	86.0	76.0	248.0	238.0	9.6
New York Yankees	164.0	84.0	80.0	248.0	244.0	3.4
Oakland Athletics	163.0	82.5	80.5	245.5	243.5	1.4
Minnesota Twins	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-4.6
California Angels	162.0	67.0	95.0	229.0	257.0	-28.7
Chicago White Sox	162.0	67.0	95.0	229.0	257.0	-29.2
Washington Senators II	161.0	65.0	96.0	226.0	257.0	-31.9

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
Detroit Tigers	255.2	236.8	19.4	46.6
Baltimore Orioles	250.7	235.3	15.6	42.4
Cleveland Indians	247.7	238.3	10.2	37.1
Minnesota Twins	246.8	239.2	7.6	34.4
Boston Red Sox	245.0	241.0	4.7	31.4
Oakland Athletics	246.0	243.0	3.9	30.9
New York Yankees	244.0	248.0	-3.2	24.1
Chicago White Sox	238.1	247.9	-10.1	17.2
California Angels	236.1	249.9	-13.8	13.4
Washington Senators II	233.4	249.6	-16.3	10.8


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	123.0	107.8	0.533	15.2
Boston Red Sox	110.7	103.1	0.518	7.7
Baltimore Orioles	116.5	111.4	0.511	5.1
Minnesota Twins	114.4	112.2	0.505	2.2
Oakland Athletics	111.2	109.7	0.503	1.5
Washington Senators II	104.5	106.8	0.494	-2.3
California Angels	109.2	112.4	0.493	-3.2
Cleveland Indians	107.8	111.3	0.492	-3.5
New York Yankees	108.4	112.8	0.490	-4.4
Chicago White Sox	102.5	113.8	0.474	-11.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	13.6	11.8	0.534	1.7
Baltimore Orioles	12.2	10.7	0.534	1.6
Boston Red Sox	12.1	10.9	0.528	1.3
Oakland Athletics	14.5	13.3	0.521	1.2
Washington Senators II	9.1	8.6	0.514	0.5
Minnesota Twins	11.7	11.5	0.504	0.2
New York Yankees	10.2	10.2	0.501	0.0
Detroit Tigers	10.6	10.8	0.496	-0.2
Chicago White Sox	10.9	11.5	0.486	-0.6
California Angels	10.0	12.1	0.453	-2.1


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	83.5	74.0	0.530	9.6
Baltimore Orioles	78.1	72.7	0.518	5.3
Minnesota Twins	74.5	70.3	0.514	4.2
Chicago White Sox	75.7	72.1	0.512	3.6
New York Yankees	75.1	74.2	0.503	1.0
Oakland Athletics	75.3	74.8	0.502	0.5
Detroit Tigers	78.2	77.7	0.502	0.5
Boston Red Sox	75.5	78.7	0.490	-3.2
California Angels	72.9	79.2	0.479	-6.2
Washington Senators II	73.1	82.1	0.471	-9.0


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Detroit Tigers	43.1	40.8	0.514	2.3
Baltimore Orioles	43.3	41.1	0.513	2.2
New York Yankees	51.0	50.0	0.505	1.0
Minnesota Twins	45.9	45.5	0.502	0.4
Oakland Athletics	45.1	45.0	0.501	0.1
Cleveland Indians	42.0	42.1	0.499	-0.1
California Angels	44.8	45.4	0.496	-0.6
Chicago White Sox	49.3	50.1	0.496	-0.9
Boston Red Sox	46.8	48.3	0.492	-1.5
Washington Senators II	47.9	50.9	0.485	-3.0

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1968 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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