1929 Major League

1929 Major League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1929 American League 1929 National League

1929 Major League Leaders and Trailers
1929 Postseason
1929 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
Philadelphia Athletics	151.0	104.5	46.5	255.5	197.5	57.9
Chicago Cubs	156.0	100.0	56.0	256.0	212.0	43.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	154.0	88.5	65.5	242.5	219.5	23.2
New York Yankees	154.0	88.0	66.0	242.0	220.0	22.1
New York Giants	152.0	84.5	67.5	236.5	219.5	16.4
Cleveland Indians	152.0	81.0	71.0	233.0	223.0	9.8
St. Louis Browns	154.0	80.0	74.0	234.0	228.0	5.7
St. Louis Cardinals	154.0	79.0	75.0	233.0	229.0	3.5
Washington Senators I	153.0	71.5	81.5	224.5	234.5	-10.8
Philadelphia Phillies	154.0	71.5	82.5	225.5	236.5	-11.4
Brooklyn Dodgers	153.0	70.0	83.0	223.0	236.0	-13.3
Detroit Tigers	155.0	70.5	84.5	225.5	239.5	-14.3
Cincinnati Reds	155.0	66.5	88.5	221.5	243.5	-22.4
Chicago White Sox	152.0	59.0	93.0	211.0	245.0	-34.5
Boston Red Sox	155.0	58.5	96.5	213.5	251.5	-38.3
Boston Braves	154.0	56.0	98.0	210.0	252.0	-42.4

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
Philadelphia Athletics	236.9	216.1	21.9	47.2
Chicago Cubs	244.2	223.8	21.3	47.2
New York Yankees	238.2	223.8	15.1	40.7
New York Giants	233.3	222.7	11.5	37.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	234.3	227.7	7.4	33.0
Washington Senators I	232.0	227.0	4.6	30.0
Detroit Tigers	233.6	231.4	2.9	28.6
Cleveland Indians	228.9	227.1	2.3	27.3
St. Louis Cardinals	230.8	231.2	0.8	26.4
Philadelphia Phillies	230.3	231.7	-1.0	25.2
St. Louis Browns	229.0	233.0	-4.0	21.3
Cincinnati Reds	230.7	234.3	-4.3	21.2
Brooklyn Dodgers	226.8	232.2	-4.9	21.1
Chicago White Sox	221.1	234.9	-14.2	10.8
Boston Red Sox	224.9	240.1	-15.2	10.4
Boston Braves	221.4	240.6	-19.5	6.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	113.1	99.5	0.532	13.6
Chicago Cubs	114.7	104.0	0.524	10.7
Philadelphia Athletics	108.8	99.1	0.523	9.7
Philadelphia Phillies	107.4	98.5	0.521	8.8
Detroit Tigers	108.2	99.7	0.521	8.5
New York Giants	111.4	105.5	0.513	5.8
St. Louis Cardinals	105.1	103.7	0.503	1.4
Brooklyn Dodgers	102.7	102.1	0.501	0.6
Cleveland Indians	102.7	102.6	0.500	0.1
Pittsburgh Pirates	108.2	108.4	0.500	-0.2
Washington Senators I	108.2	109.4	0.497	-1.2
St. Louis Browns	102.8	106.2	0.492	-3.5
Boston Braves	99.0	109.4	0.475	-10.3
Cincinnati Reds	102.0	113.7	0.473	-11.8
Chicago White Sox	97.4	109.3	0.471	-11.9
Boston Red Sox	96.1	108.8	0.469	-12.7


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Chicago Cubs	10.4	8.5	0.549	1.9
Pittsburgh Pirates	10.5	9.0	0.539	1.5
Philadelphia Athletics	9.9	8.5	0.538	1.4
Cincinnati Reds	11.2	10.5	0.515	0.7
St. Louis Browns	10.2	9.7	0.513	0.5
Detroit Tigers	10.7	10.4	0.507	0.3
Chicago White Sox	12.2	12.0	0.505	0.2
Washington Senators I	11.4	11.3	0.504	0.2
Boston Braves	9.4	9.5	0.499	-0.0
New York Yankees	9.4	9.6	0.496	-0.1
New York Giants	9.2	9.4	0.495	-0.2
St. Louis Cardinals	9.0	9.2	0.494	-0.2
Boston Red Sox	10.5	10.9	0.489	-0.5
Brooklyn Dodgers	8.6	9.1	0.487	-0.5
Cleveland Indians	10.0	10.6	0.485	-0.6
Philadelphia Phillies	8.9	9.8	0.474	-1.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cincinnati Reds	68.3	62.0	0.524	6.4
Philadelphia Athletics	70.4	64.8	0.521	5.6
Chicago Cubs	68.8	63.7	0.520	5.2
Washington Senators I	63.7	58.9	0.520	4.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	68.8	64.2	0.518	4.7
Cleveland Indians	64.9	61.1	0.515	3.7
New York Giants	64.1	62.6	0.506	1.6
New York Yankees	66.5	65.8	0.503	0.8
Brooklyn Dodgers	70.2	70.2	0.500	-0.0
St. Louis Cardinals	68.6	69.3	0.497	-0.7
St. Louis Browns	66.6	67.3	0.497	-0.7
Boston Red Sox	67.0	68.3	0.495	-1.3
Detroit Tigers	65.4	68.8	0.488	-3.3
Chicago White Sox	62.1	65.8	0.486	-3.7
Boston Braves	65.3	70.6	0.480	-5.3
Philadelphia Phillies	66.0	72.6	0.476	-6.6


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Giants	48.9	45.0	0.521	4.0
Philadelphia Athletics	47.2	44.1	0.517	3.2
Chicago White Sox	49.6	47.5	0.511	2.1
Chicago Cubs	49.5	48.3	0.507	1.3
St. Louis Cardinals	48.9	48.1	0.504	0.7
Washington Senators I	48.4	47.7	0.504	0.7
Boston Red Sox	52.0	51.5	0.503	0.6
Cincinnati Reds	48.9	48.4	0.503	0.5
St. Louis Browns	49.7	49.7	0.500	0.1
Pittsburgh Pirates	46.4	46.4	0.500	0.0
New York Yankees	49.0	49.2	0.499	-0.2
Philadelphia Phillies	48.8	50.1	0.494	-1.2
Boston Braves	48.5	50.3	0.491	-1.8
Cleveland Indians	51.2	53.0	0.491	-1.8
Detroit Tigers	49.4	52.3	0.486	-2.9
Brooklyn Dodgers	45.8	50.4	0.476	-4.6

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1929 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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