1937 Major League

1937 Major League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1937 American League 1937 National League

1937 Major League Leaders and Trailers
1937 Postseason
1937 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
New York Yankees	157.0	104.0	53.0	261.0	210.0	51.3
New York Giants	152.0	95.0	57.0	247.0	209.0	37.6
Chicago Cubs	154.0	93.0	61.0	247.0	215.0	31.6
Detroit Tigers	155.0	89.5	65.5	244.5	220.5	23.3
Chicago White Sox	154.0	86.0	68.0	240.0	222.0	17.9
Pittsburgh Pirates	154.0	86.0	68.0	240.0	222.0	17.2
Cleveland Indians	156.0	83.5	72.5	239.5	228.5	10.9
Boston Red Sox	154.0	81.0	73.0	235.0	227.0	8.0
St. Louis Cardinals	156.0	81.5	74.5	237.5	230.5	6.7
Boston Braves	152.0	79.0	73.0	231.0	225.0	5.9
Washington Senators I	158.0	75.5	82.5	233.5	240.5	-7.6
Brooklyn Dodgers	155.0	63.0	92.0	218.0	247.0	-29.7
Philadelphia Phillies	154.0	62.0	92.0	216.0	246.0	-30.0
Cincinnati Reds	155.0	56.5	98.5	211.5	253.5	-43.0
Philadelphia Athletics	154.0	55.5	98.5	209.5	252.5	-43.1
St. Louis Browns	156.0	47.0	109.0	203.0	265.0	-63.0

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	250.4	220.6	30.9	57.3
Detroit Tigers	239.9	225.1	14.9	41.7
New York Giants	234.9	221.1	15.0	40.8
Chicago Cubs	236.2	225.8	11.2	37.5
Cleveland Indians	236.2	231.8	5.0	31.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	233.6	228.4	5.1	31.4
Boston Braves	230.1	225.9	4.8	30.5
Boston Red Sox	232.8	229.2	4.0	30.1
St. Louis Cardinals	234.7	233.3	1.8	28.4
Chicago White Sox	231.7	230.3	1.8	28.1
Philadelphia Phillies	228.8	233.2	-3.8	22.7
Washington Senators I	233.7	240.3	-6.2	20.6
Brooklyn Dodgers	228.2	236.8	-8.6	17.8
Cincinnati Reds	227.2	237.8	-10.8	15.8
Philadelphia Athletics	224.3	237.7	-13.1	13.2
St. Louis Browns	222.4	245.6	-23.1	3.6


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	121.0	106.0	0.533	15.0
Detroit Tigers	109.9	99.1	0.526	10.8
Chicago Cubs	109.7	100.3	0.522	9.4
New York Giants	111.8	106.1	0.513	5.7
St. Louis Cardinals	108.3	104.5	0.509	3.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	107.3	104.7	0.506	2.5
Boston Red Sox	105.2	105.1	0.500	0.1
Cleveland Indians	106.1	107.0	0.498	-0.9
Philadelphia Phillies	102.1	103.1	0.498	-0.9
Cincinnati Reds	103.0	106.0	0.493	-2.9
Philadelphia Athletics	105.4	109.0	0.492	-3.6
Chicago White Sox	102.5	106.4	0.491	-3.9
Boston Braves	100.3	104.2	0.490	-4.0
Washington Senators I	105.6	109.6	0.491	-4.0
Brooklyn Dodgers	102.6	110.5	0.482	-7.8
St. Louis Browns	102.7	111.2	0.480	-8.5


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Braves	10.1	8.4	0.545	1.7
Detroit Tigers	10.5	9.1	0.533	1.3
Chicago Cubs	10.5	9.7	0.521	0.8
Philadelphia Phillies	11.3	10.4	0.519	0.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	10.0	9.3	0.520	0.8
New York Giants	10.6	10.0	0.515	0.6
St. Louis Browns	9.0	8.5	0.513	0.4
Cleveland Indians	9.8	9.4	0.510	0.4
Boston Red Sox	10.2	10.0	0.507	0.3
Chicago White Sox	9.2	9.0	0.505	0.2
Washington Senators I	9.3	9.1	0.504	0.1
New York Yankees	10.4	10.6	0.497	-0.1
St. Louis Cardinals	11.3	11.5	0.494	-0.3
Brooklyn Dodgers	10.3	11.5	0.472	-1.2
Cincinnati Reds	8.5	10.1	0.458	-1.6
Philadelphia Athletics	9.2	10.9	0.457	-1.7


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	71.9	61.2	0.540	10.7
New York Giants	67.0	60.9	0.524	6.1
Cleveland Indians	71.2	65.4	0.521	5.8
Brooklyn Dodgers	66.9	62.1	0.519	4.8
Boston Red Sox	71.9	67.5	0.516	4.5
Chicago White Sox	71.8	69.4	0.508	2.3
Pittsburgh Pirates	68.6	67.9	0.503	0.8
Boston Braves	65.8	65.3	0.502	0.5
Detroit Tigers	70.5	70.2	0.501	0.3
Chicago Cubs	68.3	68.9	0.498	-0.6
Washington Senators I	71.2	72.6	0.495	-1.4
St. Louis Cardinals	67.2	68.7	0.495	-1.4
Cincinnati Reds	65.2	67.4	0.492	-2.2
Philadelphia Phillies	67.0	69.9	0.490	-2.9
Philadelphia Athletics	64.4	71.2	0.475	-6.8
St. Louis Browns	64.7	73.9	0.467	-9.2


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Boston Braves	53.7	48.2	0.527	5.4
Chicago White Sox	48.1	45.6	0.513	2.5
Detroit Tigers	48.4	47.2	0.506	1.2
Chicago Cubs	47.8	46.8	0.505	1.0
Pittsburgh Pirates	47.5	46.7	0.505	0.9
New York Giants	45.2	44.4	0.505	0.8
Philadelphia Athletics	46.3	45.5	0.504	0.8
New York Yankees	45.3	44.6	0.504	0.7
Washington Senators I	48.5	48.2	0.502	0.3
St. Louis Cardinals	48.1	48.5	0.498	-0.4
Philadelphia Phillies	48.8	49.4	0.497	-0.7
Cleveland Indians	48.8	50.3	0.492	-1.5
Boston Red Sox	45.0	47.1	0.489	-2.1
St. Louis Browns	47.9	50.1	0.488	-2.3
Cincinnati Reds	51.2	53.5	0.489	-2.3
Brooklyn Dodgers	48.5	52.6	0.480	-4.1

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1937 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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