1956 Major League

1956 Major League^*
Traditional Statistics and Splits (Retrosheet)

1956 American League 1956 National League

1956 Major League Leaders and Trailers
1956 Postseason
1956 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	154.0	97.0	57.0	251.0	211.0	40.4
Brooklyn Dodgers	154.0	93.0	61.0	247.0	215.0	31.6
Milwaukee Braves	155.0	92.5	62.5	247.5	217.5	29.7
Cincinnati Reds	155.0	91.5	63.5	246.5	218.5	27.5
Cleveland Indians	155.0	88.5	66.5	243.5	221.5	21.8
Chicago White Sox	154.0	85.0	69.0	239.0	223.0	16.2
Boston Red Sox	155.0	84.5	70.5	239.5	225.5	13.5
Detroit Tigers	155.0	82.5	72.5	237.5	227.5	9.8
St. Louis Cardinals	156.0	77.0	79.0	233.0	235.0	-2.1
Philadelphia Phillies	154.0	71.0	83.0	225.0	237.0	-12.4
Baltimore Orioles	154.0	69.0	85.0	223.0	239.0	-16.6
New York Giants	154.0	67.0	87.0	221.0	241.0	-20.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	157.0	67.5	89.5	224.5	246.5	-22.4
Chicago Cubs	157.0	61.5	95.5	218.5	252.5	-34.9
Washington Senators I	155.0	59.5	95.5	214.5	250.5	-36.3
Kansas City Athletics	154.0	52.0	102.0	206.0	256.0	-50.3

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	240.9	221.1	21.2	47.7
Milwaukee Braves	239.8	225.2	16.0	42.6
Cincinnati Reds	240.2	224.8	15.7	42.6
Chicago White Sox	238.0	224.0	15.4	41.6
Cleveland Indians	237.6	227.4	10.5	37.0
Boston Red Sox	237.2	227.8	9.8	36.8
Detroit Tigers	236.4	228.6	7.9	34.3
Brooklyn Dodgers	234.1	227.9	7.0	33.7
St. Louis Cardinals	233.7	234.3	0.7	27.6
Pittsburgh Pirates	233.5	237.5	-4.6	22.8
New York Giants	228.4	233.6	-5.2	21.9
Baltimore Orioles	228.2	233.8	-5.0	21.8
Philadelphia Phillies	227.6	234.4	-6.9	19.4
Chicago Cubs	229.8	241.2	-11.5	15.9
Washington Senators I	222.2	242.8	-20.3	6.8
Kansas City Athletics	220.4	241.6	-21.1	6.0


Batting Records by Team (Sorted by Net Batting Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	112.2	100.8	0.527	11.3
Brooklyn Dodgers	115.8	106.1	0.522	9.8
Cincinnati Reds	114.3	105.9	0.519	8.4
Boston Red Sox	109.4	101.5	0.519	8.0
Detroit Tigers	115.2	107.4	0.517	7.7
Milwaukee Braves	108.6	103.0	0.513	5.6
Chicago White Sox	112.3	109.5	0.506	2.8
St. Louis Cardinals	109.2	109.0	0.500	0.2
Philadelphia Phillies	106.5	106.9	0.499	-0.4
Cleveland Indians	107.4	109.0	0.497	-1.5
Washington Senators I	102.9	106.3	0.492	-3.4
Chicago Cubs	103.7	109.8	0.486	-6.1
New York Giants	98.0	104.2	0.485	-6.2
Baltimore Orioles	99.9	108.4	0.480	-8.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	103.6	112.4	0.479	-8.9
Kansas City Athletics	99.8	109.9	0.476	-10.1


Baserunning Records by Team (Sorted by Net Baserunning Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
New York Yankees	10.2	8.9	0.535	1.3
Cincinnati Reds	10.1	9.0	0.529	1.1
Milwaukee Braves	10.4	9.5	0.524	0.9
Pittsburgh Pirates	9.6	8.7	0.524	0.9
Baltimore Orioles	9.1	8.3	0.523	0.8
New York Giants	8.2	7.5	0.523	0.7
Detroit Tigers	9.6	8.9	0.519	0.7
Philadelphia Phillies	9.2	8.6	0.517	0.6
Cleveland Indians	9.0	8.4	0.516	0.5
Chicago White Sox	10.3	10.1	0.506	0.2
Kansas City Athletics	8.5	8.3	0.507	0.2
Chicago Cubs	8.8	9.0	0.494	-0.2
Boston Red Sox	8.3	8.6	0.492	-0.3
St. Louis Cardinals	9.6	10.0	0.491	-0.3
Brooklyn Dodgers	8.8	9.3	0.487	-0.5
Washington Senators I	7.3	8.3	0.469	-1.0


Pitching Records by Team (Sorted by Net Pitching Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Cleveland Indians	79.5	69.1	0.535	10.4
Chicago White Sox	73.6	63.9	0.535	9.7
Cincinnati Reds	74.7	67.3	0.526	7.4
Milwaukee Braves	73.0	67.8	0.518	5.2
Baltimore Orioles	74.8	70.8	0.514	4.0
New York Yankees	73.8	70.3	0.512	3.5
Pittsburgh Pirates	73.6	70.8	0.510	2.7
Boston Red Sox	75.6	73.6	0.507	2.0
St. Louis Cardinals	72.7	71.8	0.503	0.8
New York Giants	77.0	76.7	0.501	0.3
Chicago Cubs	75.4	77.9	0.492	-2.5
Detroit Tigers	69.6	73.1	0.488	-3.5
Philadelphia Phillies	72.5	76.2	0.488	-3.6
Brooklyn Dodgers	71.4	76.0	0.484	-4.6
Washington Senators I	70.5	80.6	0.467	-10.1
Kansas City Athletics	70.1	80.4	0.466	-10.3


Fielding Records by Team (Sorted by Net Fielding Wins)
Team	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	Net eWins
Brooklyn Dodgers	38.7	36.0	0.518	2.8
Milwaukee Braves	47.6	45.2	0.513	2.4
Detroit Tigers	41.8	39.4	0.515	2.4
New York Yankees	43.9	41.8	0.512	2.1
Kansas City Athletics	43.3	41.8	0.509	1.6
New York Giants	45.6	44.8	0.504	0.7
Pittsburgh Pirates	46.4	45.9	0.503	0.5
Chicago White Sox	41.0	41.3	0.499	-0.2
Boston Red Sox	43.7	44.1	0.498	-0.4
St. Louis Cardinals	42.5	43.1	0.497	-0.6
Chicago Cubs	42.6	43.9	0.493	-1.3
Baltimore Orioles	44.7	46.0	0.493	-1.3
Cleveland Indians	40.6	42.0	0.492	-1.4
Cincinnati Reds	40.9	42.9	0.488	-2.0
Philadelphia Phillies	39.7	42.4	0.483	-2.7
Washington Senators I	42.8	46.2	0.481	-3.4

Player Won-Lost Records (all players)

Underlying Calculations related to 1956 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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