1962 National League

1962 National League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1962 American League 1962 Major Leagues

1962 National League Leaders and Trailers
1962 Postseason
1962 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
San Francisco Giants	165.0	103.0	62.0	268.0	227.0	40.4
Los Angeles Dodgers	165.0	102.0	63.0	267.0	228.0	39.0
Cincinnati Reds	162.0	98.0	64.0	260.0	226.0	33.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	161.0	93.0	68.0	254.0	229.0	24.2
Milwaukee Braves	162.0	86.0	76.0	248.0	238.0	9.8
St. Louis Cardinals	163.0	84.5	78.5	247.5	241.5	5.2
Philadelphia Phillies	161.0	81.0	80.0	242.0	241.0	0.7
Houston Astros	162.0	65.0	97.0	227.0	259.0	-32.6
Chicago Cubs	162.0	59.0	103.0	221.0	265.0	-44.7
New York Mets	161.0	40.5	120.5	201.5	281.5	-79.9

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	258.7	236.3	23.6	51.5
Los Angeles Dodgers	252.6	242.4	12.1	40.2
Cincinnati Reds	248.4	237.6	11.9	39.5
Milwaukee Braves	247.3	238.7	9.0	36.2
St. Louis Cardinals	247.9	241.1	7.9	35.4
Pittsburgh Pirates	244.2	238.8	5.6	32.9
Philadelphia Phillies	239.4	243.6	-3.8	23.6
Houston Astros	239.0	247.0	-8.1	19.3
Chicago Cubs	237.0	249.0	-12.2	15.5
New York Mets	229.6	253.4	-23.4	4.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
San Francisco Giants	122.4	107.4	0.533	15.0
Los Angeles Dodgers	118.2	109.7	0.518	8.4
Milwaukee Braves	117.4	110.7	0.515	6.7
Cincinnati Reds	112.4	107.5	0.511	4.9
Philadelphia Phillies	107.5	107.4	0.500	0.1
St. Louis Cardinals	113.2	113.7	0.499	-0.4
Pittsburgh Pirates	106.5	110.5	0.491	-4.0
Chicago Cubs	105.5	110.6	0.488	-5.1
New York Mets	104.0	110.9	0.484	-7.0
Houston Astros	110.4	117.7	0.484	-7.3


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Los Angeles Dodgers	13.0	10.8	0.545	2.1
San Francisco Giants	13.2	12.3	0.518	0.9
Pittsburgh Pirates	10.4	9.6	0.519	0.8
St. Louis Cardinals	11.4	10.8	0.513	0.6
Philadelphia Phillies	10.2	9.7	0.513	0.5
Cincinnati Reds	10.8	10.4	0.509	0.4
Milwaukee Braves	10.0	9.7	0.506	0.2
Houston Astros	9.7	10.2	0.487	-0.5
New York Mets	9.9	11.5	0.462	-1.6
Chicago Cubs	8.5	10.3	0.450	-1.9


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Pittsburgh Pirates	79.7	71.0	0.529	8.8
San Francisco Giants	80.6	76.1	0.515	4.6
St. Louis Cardinals	78.5	74.0	0.515	4.5
Cincinnati Reds	80.2	76.9	0.511	3.3
Houston Astros	74.8	72.1	0.509	2.6
Milwaukee Braves	74.9	73.6	0.505	1.4
Los Angeles Dodgers	76.9	78.3	0.495	-1.4
Chicago Cubs	77.0	79.6	0.492	-2.6
Philadelphia Phillies	75.3	80.0	0.485	-4.7
New York Mets	72.9	82.1	0.470	-9.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
St. Louis Cardinals	44.9	42.5	0.514	2.4
Los Angeles Dodgers	45.1	43.0	0.512	2.1
Cincinnati Reds	44.5	43.2	0.507	1.3
Philadelphia Phillies	47.0	46.0	0.505	1.0
San Francisco Giants	41.9	41.1	0.505	0.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	47.6	47.7	0.499	-0.2
Milwaukee Braves	44.6	45.1	0.497	-0.5
Chicago Cubs	46.9	47.6	0.497	-0.7
Houston Astros	44.4	46.7	0.487	-2.3
New York Mets	44.3	47.5	0.482	-3.2

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1962 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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