1961 National League

1961 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1961 American League 1961 Major Leagues

1961 National League Leaders and Trailers
1961 Postseason
1961 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
Cincinnati Reds	154.0	93.0	61.0	247.0	215.0	32.2
Los Angeles Dodgers	154.0	89.0	65.0	243.0	219.0	23.6
San Francisco Giants	155.0	85.5	69.5	240.5	224.5	15.2
Milwaukee Braves	155.0	83.5	71.5	238.5	226.5	11.7
St. Louis Cardinals	155.0	80.5	74.5	235.5	229.5	6.1
Pittsburgh Pirates	154.0	75.0	79.0	229.0	233.0	-4.9
Chicago Cubs	156.0	65.0	91.0	221.0	247.0	-26.2
Philadelphia Phillies	155.0	47.5	107.5	202.5	262.5	-60.4

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
San Francisco Giants	239.6	225.4	14.3	41.4
Milwaukee Braves	236.7	228.3	10.1	36.6
Cincinnati Reds	235.2	226.8	10.1	36.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	232.4	229.6	3.0	29.5
St. Louis Cardinals	233.9	231.1	2.9	29.3
Los Angeles Dodgers	231.4	230.6	1.5	28.3
Chicago Cubs	231.7	236.3	-4.3	22.8
Philadelphia Phillies	222.6	242.4	-20.1	6.7


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	110.0	102.3	0.518	7.7
San Francisco Giants	108.0	102.4	0.513	5.6
Los Angeles Dodgers	108.8	104.3	0.511	4.5
Chicago Cubs	106.7	104.4	0.505	2.2
Cincinnati Reds	106.3	104.7	0.504	1.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	106.2	106.2	0.500	0.0
St. Louis Cardinals	106.6	111.6	0.489	-5.0
Philadelphia Phillies	101.6	113.3	0.473	-11.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Cardinals	10.8	8.7	0.552	2.0
Cincinnati Reds	10.7	9.0	0.543	1.7
San Francisco Giants	10.6	9.9	0.516	0.7
Milwaukee Braves	10.6	10.3	0.509	0.4
Los Angeles Dodgers	10.2	10.0	0.505	0.2
Philadelphia Phillies	9.2	9.4	0.494	-0.2
Chicago Cubs	7.6	8.1	0.485	-0.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	8.2	10.2	0.446	-2.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Pittsburgh Pirates	72.9	66.1	0.525	6.9
San Francisco Giants	78.5	72.7	0.519	5.8
Cincinnati Reds	75.3	70.2	0.518	5.1
St. Louis Cardinals	72.9	69.3	0.513	3.6
Milwaukee Braves	72.5	74.3	0.494	-1.8
Los Angeles Dodgers	73.7	76.3	0.491	-2.6
Chicago Cubs	73.3	75.9	0.491	-2.6
Philadelphia Phillies	68.5	75.1	0.477	-6.6


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Milwaukee Braves	43.8	41.1	0.516	2.7
San Francisco Giants	42.3	40.6	0.510	1.6
Philadelphia Phillies	44.3	43.6	0.504	0.7
Cincinnati Reds	43.0	42.7	0.502	0.3
St. Louis Cardinals	42.7	42.4	0.502	0.3
Los Angeles Dodgers	39.1	39.6	0.497	-0.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	45.1	47.1	0.489	-2.0
Chicago Cubs	44.5	47.5	0.484	-3.0

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1961 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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