1934 Major League

1934 Major League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1934 American League 1934 National League

1934 Major League Leaders and Trailers
1934 Postseason
1934 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	154.0	101.0	53.0	255.0	207.0	47.7
St. Louis Cardinals	154.0	95.5	58.5	249.5	212.5	36.7
New York Yankees	154.0	94.0	60.0	248.0	214.0	34.2
New York Giants	153.0	93.0	60.0	246.0	213.0	32.9
Chicago Cubs	152.0	86.5	65.5	238.5	217.5	20.7
Cleveland Indians	154.0	85.0	69.0	239.0	223.0	16.1
Boston Braves	152.0	78.5	73.5	230.5	225.5	4.2
Boston Red Sox	153.0	76.5	76.5	229.5	229.5	-0.3
Pittsburgh Pirates	151.0	74.5	76.5	225.5	227.5	-2.9
Brooklyn Dodgers	153.0	71.5	81.5	224.5	234.5	-10.1
Philadelphia Athletics	153.0	69.5	83.5	222.5	236.5	-13.8
St. Louis Browns	154.0	68.0	86.0	222.0	240.0	-19.3
Washington Senators I	155.0	67.5	87.5	222.5	242.5	-20.3
Philadelphia Phillies	149.0	56.0	93.0	205.0	242.0	-37.7
Chicago White Sox	153.0	53.5	99.5	206.5	252.5	-46.3
Cincinnati Reds	152.0	52.5	99.5	204.5	251.5	-47.4

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	242.2	219.8	23.6	49.5
Detroit Tigers	242.3	219.7	22.8	48.8
New York Giants	238.1	220.9	18.0	44.0
St. Louis Cardinals	237.7	224.3	14.2	40.4
Chicago Cubs	232.2	223.8	8.9	34.9
Cleveland Indians	234.3	227.7	7.3	33.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	228.9	224.1	4.5	30.2
Brooklyn Dodgers	230.7	228.3	3.0	29.1
Boston Red Sox	230.4	228.6	2.7	28.6
Washington Senators I	230.9	234.1	-3.0	23.4
Philadelphia Athletics	227.6	231.4	-3.1	23.2
Boston Braves	225.3	230.7	-4.1	21.8
Philadelphia Phillies	218.8	228.2	-9.6	15.8
St. Louis Browns	225.5	236.5	-11.6	14.8
Cincinnati Reds	219.5	236.5	-17.1	8.8
Chicago White Sox	217.1	241.9	-25.0	1.2


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	118.0	104.6	0.530	13.3
Detroit Tigers	116.7	105.9	0.524	10.9
New York Giants	110.7	103.9	0.516	6.7
Brooklyn Dodgers	109.9	103.7	0.515	6.2
Philadelphia Athletics	106.4	102.4	0.510	4.0
Chicago Cubs	104.5	101.2	0.508	3.3
St. Louis Cardinals	108.2	105.1	0.507	3.1
Cleveland Indians	105.0	103.0	0.505	2.0
Boston Braves	102.9	101.5	0.503	1.4
Pittsburgh Pirates	107.6	107.0	0.501	0.6
Boston Red Sox	104.3	107.0	0.494	-2.7
Washington Senators I	101.5	106.4	0.488	-4.9
Philadelphia Phillies	101.7	107.1	0.487	-5.4
St. Louis Browns	103.2	110.3	0.483	-7.2
Chicago White Sox	98.0	105.3	0.482	-7.3
Cincinnati Reds	98.3	108.4	0.476	-10.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Red Sox	11.2	9.4	0.545	1.9
Pittsburgh Pirates	9.8	8.4	0.537	1.4
St. Louis Cardinals	10.9	9.6	0.531	1.3
Detroit Tigers	11.9	10.6	0.528	1.3
New York Giants	7.9	6.9	0.535	1.0
Brooklyn Dodgers	9.3	8.8	0.513	0.5
St. Louis Browns	8.5	8.1	0.510	0.3
Washington Senators I	9.0	8.9	0.504	0.1
Cincinnati Reds	8.3	8.3	0.500	-0.0
Philadelphia Athletics	8.0	8.2	0.494	-0.2
Cleveland Indians	8.7	9.0	0.489	-0.4
Philadelphia Phillies	9.2	9.6	0.488	-0.5
Chicago White Sox	7.5	8.1	0.479	-0.6
New York Yankees	9.5	10.3	0.479	-0.8
Chicago Cubs	8.5	9.5	0.473	-1.0
Boston Braves	8.0	9.4	0.461	-1.4


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Cardinals	71.5	64.0	0.528	7.6
New York Yankees	69.5	62.5	0.526	7.0
Detroit Tigers	67.6	61.1	0.525	6.5
Cleveland Indians	71.3	66.8	0.516	4.5
New York Giants	69.0	65.4	0.513	3.5
Chicago Cubs	70.4	67.2	0.512	3.3
Boston Red Sox	68.4	65.4	0.511	3.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	64.8	62.5	0.509	2.2
Washington Senators I	68.0	66.6	0.505	1.4
Cincinnati Reds	65.4	65.3	0.501	0.2
Brooklyn Dodgers	66.0	67.0	0.496	-1.0
St. Louis Browns	66.5	69.1	0.491	-2.6
Philadelphia Phillies	61.5	65.7	0.483	-4.2
Boston Braves	64.9	69.2	0.484	-4.3
Philadelphia Athletics	66.7	71.8	0.482	-5.1
Chicago White Sox	66.4	78.1	0.459	-11.7


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Giants	49.5	45.7	0.520	3.9
Chicago Cubs	48.5	46.3	0.512	2.3
Philadelphia Phillies	47.1	45.1	0.510	1.9
Boston Braves	50.9	49.3	0.508	1.7
Detroit Tigers	44.6	43.5	0.506	1.1
New York Yankees	44.2	43.4	0.505	0.8
Washington Senators I	52.6	51.9	0.503	0.7
St. Louis Browns	48.5	47.9	0.503	0.6
St. Louis Cardinals	46.6	46.2	0.502	0.3
Pittsburgh Pirates	46.4	46.4	0.500	0.0
Cleveland Indians	49.0	49.2	0.499	-0.2
Boston Red Sox	46.4	46.9	0.498	-0.5
Philadelphia Athletics	47.2	48.2	0.495	-1.0
Chicago White Sox	47.3	48.4	0.494	-1.2
Brooklyn Dodgers	45.3	48.9	0.481	-3.7
Cincinnati Reds	48.3	53.8	0.473	-5.4

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1934 Major 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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