The Chicago White Sox went 79-83 in 2011, a .488 winning percentage — 18th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 654 runs and allowed 706, a run differential of -52. The offence ranked 18th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.07 staff ERA was 18th of 30. Their 97 team wRC+ was 3% below league average — 17th of 30 in MLB. Paul Konerko led the position players at 4.2 WAR, and Edwin Jackson the rotation at a 3.79 ERA.
The 2011 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 3rd in the AL Central, 16 games back. They spent 3 of 181 days in first place, led by as many as 0.5 games on April 1 and were as far as 16 games back on September 28. Their best month was August at 16-12, their worst March/April at 10-18. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from August 5 to August 9 and a 7-game losing streak from April 13 to April 20. They were 36-45 at home and 43-38 on the road, 24-25 in one-run games and 28-41 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 10-0 against the Rangers on August 21; the heaviest defeat, 18-2 at the Tigers on September 4.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
10
18
.357
109
143
-34
May
16
13
.552
128
108
+20
June
14
11
.560
98
89
+9
July
12
12
.500
82
84
-2
August
16
12
.571
127
122
+5
Sept/Oct
11
17
.393
110
160
-50
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
36-45
.444
Road
43-38
.531
One-run games
24-25
.490
Extra innings
7-11
.389
Within the division
32-40
.444
Against .500+ clubs
28-41
.406
Decided by 5+ runs
19-21
.475
Last 10
5-5
.500
American League Central standings, 2011
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2011. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
24,707
23,934
16,523
38,579
Night
54
24,862
23,904
18,007
37,109
Day
27
24,397
24,057
16,523
38,579
Weekend
39
25,041
24,854
20,103
33,919
Weekday
42
24,397
22,899
16,523
38,579
On the road
81
29,229
31,264
8,726
43,593
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
22,995
May
11
21,803
Jun
16
25,771
Jul
13
28,856
Aug
16
24,846
Sep
13
23,116
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 161 completed games, 2011.
Regulation
2:44
143 games
All games
2:50
Extra innings
3:33
18 of them
Longest
5:21
2011-08-16, 14 inn
Shortest
2:01
2011-05-18
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
161
2:50
2:46
2:01
5:21
Regulation
143
2:44
2:43
2:01
3:31
Extra innings
18
3:33
3:25
2:37
5:21
Home
80
2:53
2:51
2:01
5:21
Road
81
2:46
2:41
2:05
4:17
Day
55
2:51
2:46
2:08
4:17
Night
106
2:49
2:46
2:01
5:21
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
2:50
May
11
2:40
Jun
16
3:02
Jul
13
2:53
Aug
15
2:58
Sep
13
2:53
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 164 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Chicago White Sox are 79-83, a .488 win rate, while their -52 run differential implies .465. That is about 4 wins ahead of it, usually a mix of bullpen sequencing and one-run luck.
