1973 American League

1973 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1973 National League 1973 Major Leagues

1973 American League Leaders and Trailers
1973 Postseason
1973 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
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	97.0	65.0	259.0	227.0	30.9
Oakland Athletics	162.0	94.0	68.0	256.0	230.0	25.7
Boston Red Sox	162.0	89.0	73.0	251.0	235.0	15.6
Kansas City Royals	162.0	88.0	74.0	250.0	236.0	13.5
Detroit Tigers	162.0	85.0	77.0	247.0	239.0	7.4
Minnesota Twins	162.0	81.0	81.0	243.0	243.0	-0.5
New York Yankees	162.0	80.0	82.0	242.0	244.0	-2.9
California Angels	162.0	79.0	83.0	241.0	245.0	-4.4
Chicago White Sox	162.0	77.0	85.0	239.0	247.0	-8.9
Milwaukee Brewers	162.0	74.0	88.0	236.0	250.0	-14.8
Cleveland Indians	162.0	71.0	91.0	233.0	253.0	-20.9
Texas Rangers	162.0	57.0	105.0	219.0	267.0	-48.6

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
Baltimore Orioles	253.5	232.5	20.0	47.5
Oakland Athletics	249.4	236.6	12.7	40.6
Minnesota Twins	246.7	239.3	7.3	35.1
Boston Red Sox	245.7	240.3	6.3	34.0
Kansas City Royals	244.3	241.7	2.4	30.4
New York Yankees	244.2	241.8	2.3	30.0
Milwaukee Brewers	243.7	242.3	0.4	28.6
California Angels	242.8	243.2	-0.8	27.0
Detroit Tigers	242.5	243.5	-1.5	26.5
Chicago White Sox	240.0	246.0	-5.7	22.3
Cleveland Indians	235.3	250.7	-15.8	12.1
Texas Rangers	234.4	251.6	-18.1	10.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Oakland Athletics	114.0	107.5	0.515	6.4
Baltimore Orioles	119.3	115.4	0.508	3.9
Boston Red Sox	114.7	111.0	0.508	3.7
Minnesota Twins	117.4	114.0	0.507	3.4
Milwaukee Brewers	107.4	105.1	0.505	2.2
Kansas City Royals	108.9	107.1	0.504	1.8
Detroit Tigers	109.6	109.8	0.500	-0.1
Cleveland Indians	106.1	107.9	0.496	-1.7
Chicago White Sox	105.8	107.8	0.495	-2.0
New York Yankees	112.1	116.0	0.491	-4.0
California Angels	108.5	114.2	0.487	-5.6
Texas Rangers	103.6	109.3	0.487	-5.6


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Baltimore Orioles	14.5	11.6	0.555	2.9
Oakland Athletics	13.3	10.9	0.550	2.4
Minnesota Twins	12.1	10.9	0.525	1.1
Kansas City Royals	11.2	10.2	0.524	1.0
Milwaukee Brewers	11.7	11.1	0.512	0.6
Texas Rangers	11.3	11.1	0.505	0.2
California Angels	10.0	10.0	0.500	0.0
Boston Red Sox	10.3	10.4	0.498	-0.1
Detroit Tigers	10.0	10.3	0.494	-0.2
New York Yankees	9.5	9.8	0.491	-0.4
Chicago White Sox	9.8	11.2	0.467	-1.4
Cleveland Indians	10.3	11.9	0.464	-1.6


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Baltimore Orioles	73.4	66.0	0.526	7.3
New York Yankees	76.6	70.2	0.522	6.4
California Angels	80.1	74.8	0.517	5.3
Minnesota Twins	74.5	71.8	0.509	2.8
Kansas City Royals	76.5	75.6	0.503	0.9
Chicago White Sox	77.9	77.3	0.502	0.6
Boston Red Sox	76.7	76.4	0.501	0.3
Detroit Tigers	78.1	77.9	0.501	0.3
Oakland Athletics	75.2	76.8	0.495	-1.7
Milwaukee Brewers	76.8	79.1	0.493	-2.3
Texas Rangers	74.5	80.8	0.479	-6.4
Cleveland Indians	74.3	81.5	0.477	-7.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Oakland Athletics	46.5	41.8	0.527	4.7
Baltimore Orioles	45.2	40.6	0.527	4.6
Boston Red Sox	44.4	42.2	0.513	2.2
New York Yankees	46.2	45.7	0.503	0.5
Milwaukee Brewers	47.6	47.1	0.502	0.4
Detroit Tigers	45.0	45.3	0.498	-0.3
Minnesota Twins	42.2	43.1	0.495	-0.9
Kansas City Royals	47.6	48.9	0.493	-1.3
California Angels	43.4	45.0	0.491	-1.6
Chicago White Sox	47.2	49.1	0.490	-2.0
Cleveland Indians	45.7	48.3	0.486	-2.7
Texas Rangers	45.6	49.8	0.478	-4.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1973 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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