2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 67th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.
Incidents
A gambling scandal involving members of the Yomiuri Giants was reported in October. Pitchers Satoshi Fukuda, Shoki Kasahara, and Ryuya Matsumoto were found to have bet on both NPB games and Major League Baseball games, as well as high school baseball.Regular season standings
Climax Series
Note: In each league's stepladder playoff system, all games in that series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advanced if the round ended in a tie.First stage
Central League
Pacific League
Final stage
Central League
Pacific League
Japan Series
League leaders
Central League
| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
| Batting average | Hayato Sakamoto | Yomiuri Giants | .344 |
| Home runs | Yoshitomo Tsutsugo | Yokohama DeNA BayStars | 44 |
| Runs batted in | Yoshitomo Tsutsugo | Yokohama DeNA BayStars | 110 |
| Runs | Tetsuto Yamada Kosuke Tanaka | Tokyo Yakult Swallows Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 102 |
| Hits | Ryosuke Kikuchi | Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 181 |
| Stolen bases | Tetsuto Yamada | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 30 |
| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
| Wins | Yusuke Nomura | Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 16 |
| Losses | Atsushi Nomi Hirofumi Yamanaka | Hanshin Tigers Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 12 |
| Earned run average | Tomoyuki Sugano | Yomiuri Giants | 2.01 |
| Strikeouts | Tomoyuki Sugano | Yomiuri Giants | 189 |
| Innings pitched | Randy Messenger | Hanshin Tigers | 185.1 |
| Saves | Hirokazu Sawamura | Yomiuri Giants | 37 |
Pacific League
| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
| Batting average | Katsuya Kakunaka | Chiba Lotte Marines | .339 |
| Home runs | Brandon Laird | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 39 |
| Runs batted in | Sho Nakata | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 110 |
| Runs | Shogo Akiyama | Saitama Seibu Lions | 98 |
| Hits | Katsuya Kakunaka | Chiba Lotte Marines | 176 |
| Stolen bases | Yoshio Itoi Yuji Kaneko | Orix Buffaloes Saitama Seibu Lions | 53 |
| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
| Wins | Tsuyoshi Wada | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 15 |
| Losses | Yuki Nishi | Orix Buffaloes | 12 |
| Earned run average | Ayumu Ishikawa | Chiba Lotte Marines | 2.16 |
| Strikeouts | Takahiro Norimoto | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 216 |
| Innings pitched | Takahiro Norimoto | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 195 |
| Saves | Yoshihisa Hirano | Orix Buffaloes | 31 |
Attendances
| Team | Total attendance | Home average |
| Yomiuri Giants | 3,004,108 | 41,724 |
| Hanshin Tigers | 2,910,562 | 40,994 |
| Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | 2,492,983 | 35,112 |
| Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 2,157,331 | 29,963 |
| Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | 2,078,981 | 29,281 |
| Chunichi Dragons | 2,058,381 | 28,991 |
| Yokohama DeNA Baystars | 1,939,146 | 26,933 |
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows | 1,779,460 | 25,063 |
| ORIX Buffaloes | 1,794,475 | 24,923 |
| Saitama Seibu Lions | 1,618,194 | 22,791 |
| Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | 1,620,961 | 22,513 |
| Chiba Lotte Marines | 1,526,932 | 21,207 |