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1971 MLB Wins by Team

Every team's total, added up from its players' lines. Games won

The Baltimore Orioles and the Oakland Athletics shared the lead of all of MLB in wins in 1971, with 101. The average across 24 MLB teams is 80.7.

Led all of MLB in 1971 Baltimore Orioles 158 games
101 Wins Tied with Oakland Athletics
# Team League G W
1 Baltimore Orioles AL 158 101
1 Oakland Athletics AL 161 101
3 Pittsburgh Pirates NL 162 97
4 Detroit Tigers AL 162 91
5 San Francisco Giants NL 162 90
5 St. Louis Cardinals NL 163 90
7 Los Angeles Dodgers NL 162 89
8 Boston Red Sox AL 162 85
8 Kansas City Royals AL 161 85
10 Chicago Cubs NL 162 83
10 New York Mets NL 162 83
12 Atlanta Braves NL 162 82
13 New York Yankees AL 162 81
MLB average 80.7
14 Chicago White Sox AL 162 79
14 Cincinnati Reds NL 162 79
14 Houston Astros NL 162 79
17 California Angels AL 162 76
18 Minnesota Twins AL 160 74
19 Montreal Expos NL 162 71
20 Milwaukee Brewers AL 161 69
21 Philadelphia Phillies NL 162 67
22 Washington Senators AL 159 63
23 San Diego Padres NL 161 61
24 Cleveland Indians AL 162 60

A team's total is its players' numbers for the club added up, so a player traded mid-season counts for each team only what he did there. Rates such as ERA and batting average are worked out from the team's summed totals, not averaged across players.