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Glossary of Terms

Year — A Star indicates an all-star that season.
A Ring indicates the player appeared in WS for winning team.
Age — Player’s age at midnight of June 30th of that year
Lg — League
AL – American League (1901-present)
NL – National League (1876-present)
AA – American Association (1882-1891)
UA – Union Association (1884)
PL – Players League (1890)
FL – Federal League (1914-1915)
NA – National Association (1871-1875)
ANL – American Negro League (1929)
ECL – Eastern Colored League (1923-1928)
EWL – East-West League (1932)
NAL – Negro American League (1937-1948)
NNL – Negro National League (1920-1931)
NN2 – Negro National League 2 (1933-1948)
NSL – Negro Southern League (1932)
W — Wins
L — Losses
W-L% — Win-Loss Percentage
W / (W + L)
For players, leaders need one decision for every ten team games.
For managers, minimum to qualify for leading is 320 games.
ERA — 9 * ER / IP
For recent years, leaders need 1 IP
per team game played.
Bold indicates lowest ERA using current stats
Gold means awarded ERA title at end of year.
G — Games Played
This includes all times that the player appeared on the lineup card. Pitchers in non-DH games that appeared on the lineup card but didn’t bat will still have a game in this column.
GS — Games Started
GF — Games Finished
CG — Complete Game
SHO — Shutouts
No runs allowed and a complete game.
SV — Saves
IP — Innings Pitched
H — Hits/Hits Allowed
R — Runs Scored/Allowed
ER — Earned Runs Allowed
HR — Home Runs Hit/Allowed
BB — Bases on Balls/Walks
IBB — Intentional Bases on Balls
First tracked in 1955.
SO — Strikeouts
HBP — Times Hit by a Pitch.
BK — Balks
WP — Wild Pitches
BF — Batters Faced
ERA+ — ERA+
100*[lgERA/ERA]
Adjusted to the player’s ballpark(s).
FIP — Fielding Independent Pitching
this stat measures a pitcher’s effectiveness at preventing HR, BB, HBP and causing SO
(13*HR + 3*(BB+HBP) - 2*SO)/IP + Constantlg
The constant is set so that each season major-league average FIP is the same as the major-league avg ERA
WHIP — (BB + H)/IP
For recent years, leaders need 1 IP
per team game played
H9 — 9 x H / IP
For recent years, leaders need 1 IP
per team game played
HR9 — 9 x HR / IP
For recent years, leaders need 1 IP
per team game played
BB9 — 9 x BB / IP
For recent years, leaders need 1 IP
per team game played
SO9 — 9 x SO / IP
For recent years, leaders need 1 IP
per team game played
SO/W — SO/W or SO/BB
For recent years, pitching leaders need 1 IP
per team game played.
No batting leaders computed.
Awards — Summary of how player did in awards voting that year.
GG – Gold Glove
SS – Silver Slugger
MVP – Most Valuable Player
CYA – Cy Young Award
ROY – Rookie of the Year