Friday, August 5, 2022

Highest Team OPS Differentials, 1901-2021

OPS Differential is a team's OPS minus the OPS it allowed. I have posted on this before using data from searches at Stathead. But Stathead is probably wrong on SLG allowed for many teams in the past. It might have something to do with not knowing how many 2Bs and 3Bs a team allowed.

For example, in 1920, the AL had a league SLG of .387. But BB Reference shows in the pitching splits that AL pitchers allowed a .373 SLG. BB Ref shows that the White Sox that year allowed an SLG of .371 while Retrosheet shows .380.

So for all teams from 1951-59 I replaced the OPS allowed that I found from a Stathead search with what can be found at Retrosheet. I stopped at 1959 because that is when I started to get agreement for all teams from both websites.

Click here to open an Excel file that has all the teams from 1901-2021.

The table below has the top 25. HOPS is the OPS a team's hitters compiled and POPS is what their pitchers allowed. The Dodgers the last 3 years claim 3 of the top 12. Of course, 2020 was a short season with only 60 games. This shows how dominant the 1927 Yankees are. Also, it is actually the top 26 since the last 2 teams each have a differential of .115 (see update below from March 8, 2023 since 2 teams from 2022 make the top 25).

Rank

Team

Year

HOPS

POPS

Diff

W-L%

1

NYY

1927

0.873

0.676

0.197

0.714

2

LAD

2020

0.821

0.627

0.194

0.717

3

HOU

2019

0.848

0.681

0.167

0.660

4

NYY

1939

0.825

0.667

0.158

0.702

5

PIT

1902

0.719

0.570

0.149

0.739

6

LAD

2019

0.810

0.661

0.149

0.654

7

NYG

1905

0.718

0.576

0.142

0.686

8

CHC

2016

0.772

0.633

0.139

0.640

9

ATL

1998

0.795

0.657

0.138

0.654

10

BAL

1969

0.756

0.620

0.136

0.673

11

CHC

1906

0.671

0.536

0.135

0.762

12

LAD

2021

0.759

0.624

0.135

0.654

13

NYY

1936

0.865

0.733

0.132

0.667

14

STL

1944

0.745

0.615

0.130

0.682

15

STL

1942

0.717

0.590

0.127

0.688

16

CLE

1948

0.792

0.665

0.127

0.626

17

NYY

1998

0.825

0.699

0.126

0.704

18

SEA

2001

0.805

0.679

0.126

0.716

19

PHA

1929

0.816

0.692

0.124

0.693

20

NYY

1937

0.825

0.704

0.121

0.662

21

CLE

1995

0.839

0.718

0.121

0.694

22

BRO

1953

0.840

0.722

0.118

0.682

23

CLE

1954

0.744

0.626

0.118

0.721

24

NYY

1932

0.830

0.714

0.116

0.695

25

NYY

1931

0.840

0.725

0.115

0.614

26

CLE

2017

0.788

0.673

0.115

0.630

Update March 8, 2023: The 2022 Dodgers (.158) would tie for 4th place while the 2022 Astros (.130) would be tied for 15th. See Team OPS differentials for 2022.

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