1958 National League

1958 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1958 American League 1958 Major Leagues

1958 National League Leaders and Trailers
1958 Postseason
1958 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
Milwaukee Braves	154.0	92.0	62.0	246.0	216.0	30.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	154.0	84.0	70.0	238.0	224.0	13.5
San Francisco Giants	154.0	80.0	74.0	234.0	228.0	5.7
Cincinnati Reds	154.0	76.0	78.0	230.0	232.0	-2.9
Chicago Cubs	154.0	72.0	82.0	226.0	236.0	-10.5
St. Louis Cardinals	154.0	72.0	82.0	226.0	236.0	-10.7
Los Angeles Dodgers	154.0	71.0	83.0	225.0	237.0	-12.9
Philadelphia Phillies	154.0	69.0	85.0	223.0	239.0	-16.1

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
Milwaukee Braves	239.8	222.2	18.6	43.8
San Francisco Giants	233.7	228.3	5.6	31.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	233.1	228.9	4.6	30.1
Cincinnati Reds	232.9	229.1	3.7	29.5
Chicago Cubs	231.9	230.1	2.1	28.2
Philadelphia Phillies	229.6	232.4	-1.9	23.6
Los Angeles Dodgers	225.7	236.3	-10.1	16.3
St. Louis Cardinals	225.1	236.9	-11.5	14.5


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	114.2	105.6	0.520	8.6
Chicago Cubs	108.3	103.4	0.511	4.8
San Francisco Giants	107.7	103.4	0.510	4.3
Cincinnati Reds	112.0	112.8	0.498	-0.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	105.1	106.2	0.498	-1.0
Los Angeles Dodgers	100.3	101.4	0.497	-1.1
Philadelphia Phillies	107.7	109.4	0.496	-1.7
St. Louis Cardinals	100.7	109.0	0.480	-8.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago Cubs	9.2	7.9	0.537	1.3
Milwaukee Braves	9.1	8.1	0.528	0.9
Los Angeles Dodgers	7.6	7.5	0.502	0.1
Pittsburgh Pirates	8.4	8.3	0.502	0.1
San Francisco Giants	9.7	10.1	0.489	-0.4
Cincinnati Reds	9.2	9.7	0.487	-0.5
St. Louis Cardinals	8.6	9.4	0.479	-0.8
Philadelphia Phillies	8.5	9.6	0.468	-1.1


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cincinnati Reds	71.5	65.7	0.521	5.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	74.5	69.7	0.516	4.7
Milwaukee Braves	72.5	68.1	0.516	4.4
Philadelphia Phillies	72.8	69.1	0.513	3.6
San Francisco Giants	72.8	73.0	0.499	-0.2
St. Louis Cardinals	74.3	75.5	0.496	-1.2
Chicago Cubs	72.5	75.2	0.491	-2.7
Los Angeles Dodgers	75.5	84.6	0.472	-9.1


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	43.4	41.0	0.514	2.4
Los Angeles Dodgers	43.5	41.7	0.511	1.9
San Francisco Giants	43.2	42.0	0.507	1.2
Pittsburgh Pirates	45.4	44.4	0.505	1.0
St. Louis Cardinals	42.3	42.2	0.500	0.1
Cincinnati Reds	40.0	41.0	0.494	-1.0
Chicago Cubs	42.3	43.2	0.494	-1.0
Philadelphia Phillies	41.0	43.9	0.483	-3.0

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1958 National 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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