2018 American League

2018 American League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

2018 National League 2018 Major Leagues

2018 American League Leaders and Trailers
2018 Postseason
2018 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
Boston Red Sox	162.0	108.0	54.0	270.0	216.0	53.2
Houston Astros	162.0	103.0	59.0	265.0	221.0	43.5
New York Yankees	162.0	100.0	62.0	262.0	224.0	37.4
Oakland Athletics	162.0	97.0	65.0	259.0	227.0	31.3
Cleveland Indians	162.0	91.0	71.0	253.0	233.0	19.7
Tampa Bay Rays	162.0	90.0	72.0	252.0	234.0	16.7
Seattle Mariners	162.0	89.0	73.0	251.0	235.0	15.6
Anaheim Angels	162.0	80.0	82.0	242.0	244.0	-2.5
Minnesota Twins	162.0	78.0	84.0	240.0	246.0	-6.7
Toronto Blue Jays	162.0	73.0	89.0	235.0	251.0	-16.6
Texas Rangers	162.0	67.0	95.0	229.0	257.0	-28.7
Detroit Tigers	162.0	64.0	98.0	226.0	260.0	-34.8
Chicago White Sox	162.0	62.0	100.0	224.0	262.0	-38.7
Kansas City Royals	162.0	58.0	104.0	220.0	266.0	-46.5
Baltimore Orioles	162.0	47.0	115.0	209.0	277.0	-68.8

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
Houston Astros	255.6	230.4	25.1	54.2
Boston Red Sox	254.7	231.3	22.9	52.2
New York Yankees	253.6	232.4	20.9	50.2
Cleveland Indians	253.0	233.0	19.5	48.6
Oakland Athletics	249.9	236.1	13.6	43.0
Tampa Bay Rays	248.8	237.2	10.9	40.9
Seattle Mariners	243.7	242.3	1.4	30.8
Anaheim Angels	243.5	242.5	0.7	30.3
Minnesota Twins	240.8	245.2	-4.2	25.3
Toronto Blue Jays	239.4	246.6	-7.7	21.7
Texas Rangers	236.9	249.1	-12.6	16.7
Detroit Tigers	235.8	250.2	-14.8	14.5
Kansas City Royals	235.2	250.8	-15.9	13.4
Chicago White Sox	234.8	251.2	-17.1	12.2
Baltimore Orioles	229.6	256.4	-26.8	2.6


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Oakland Athletics	120.2	109.2	0.524	11.0
Boston Red Sox	121.0	111.1	0.521	9.9
New York Yankees	121.0	112.6	0.518	8.4
Cleveland Indians	117.3	112.8	0.510	4.6
Houston Astros	120.6	116.3	0.509	4.3
Toronto Blue Jays	113.3	110.8	0.506	2.5
Anaheim Angels	113.3	111.9	0.503	1.4
Seattle Mariners	113.4	112.2	0.502	1.1
Tampa Bay Rays	114.5	114.3	0.500	0.2
Minnesota Twins	110.2	113.3	0.493	-3.0
Texas Rangers	108.8	113.4	0.490	-4.7
Chicago White Sox	103.9	109.3	0.487	-5.4
Kansas City Royals	103.4	112.2	0.480	-8.7
Baltimore Orioles	101.8	110.9	0.479	-9.1
Detroit Tigers	106.6	117.3	0.476	-10.8


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	10.4	8.6	0.549	1.9
New York Yankees	9.4	7.9	0.542	1.5
Cleveland Indians	11.4	10.1	0.530	1.3
Anaheim Angels	9.1	8.1	0.528	1.0
Seattle Mariners	9.9	9.0	0.525	0.9
Houston Astros	10.0	9.4	0.514	0.5
Texas Rangers	9.3	8.9	0.511	0.4
Tampa Bay Rays	10.1	10.1	0.500	0.0
Kansas City Royals	8.0	8.3	0.492	-0.3
Baltimore Orioles	7.5	7.8	0.490	-0.3
Oakland Athletics	7.6	8.2	0.483	-0.5
Detroit Tigers	8.2	8.8	0.482	-0.6
Minnesota Twins	8.1	8.9	0.479	-0.7
Chicago White Sox	8.8	9.7	0.476	-0.9
Toronto Blue Jays	7.2	9.0	0.442	-1.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Houston Astros	86.1	70.7	0.549	15.5
Cleveland Indians	85.7	74.5	0.535	11.2
New York Yankees	85.2	74.1	0.535	11.1
Boston Red Sox	83.2	74.1	0.529	9.1
Tampa Bay Rays	83.3	74.5	0.528	8.8
Minnesota Twins	83.2	81.9	0.504	1.2
Oakland Athletics	79.5	79.0	0.502	0.5
Seattle Mariners	79.9	80.6	0.498	-0.7
Detroit Tigers	79.5	81.3	0.494	-1.9
Toronto Blue Jays	78.7	82.4	0.489	-3.7
Anaheim Angels	81.0	84.9	0.488	-3.9
Texas Rangers	77.7	81.8	0.487	-4.1
Kansas City Royals	80.3	85.6	0.484	-5.3
Chicago White Sox	81.0	86.5	0.483	-5.6
Baltimore Orioles	78.4	90.8	0.463	-12.4


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Anaheim Angels	40.4	37.3	0.520	3.1
Oakland Athletics	42.6	39.7	0.517	2.9
Houston Astros	37.6	35.3	0.515	2.2
Tampa Bay Rays	40.5	38.7	0.511	1.8
Seattle Mariners	41.1	40.0	0.507	1.1
Detroit Tigers	42.4	41.9	0.503	0.5
Kansas City Royals	44.3	43.9	0.502	0.4
Boston Red Sox	38.9	38.8	0.501	0.1
Cleveland Indians	36.8	37.4	0.496	-0.6
Baltimore Orioles	43.9	44.8	0.495	-0.8
Minnesota Twins	39.8	40.7	0.495	-0.9
New York Yankees	37.1	38.7	0.490	-1.6
Texas Rangers	42.2	43.9	0.490	-1.7
Chicago White Sox	42.2	44.7	0.486	-2.5
Toronto Blue Jays	40.7	43.9	0.481	-3.3

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 2018 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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