hall.fame {UsingR}R Documentation

Data frame containing baseball statistics including Hall of Fame membership

Description

A data frame containing baseball statistics for several players.

Usage

data(hall.fame)

Format

A data frame with 1340 observations on the following 28 variables.

first
first name
last
last name
seasons
Seasons played
games
Games played
AB
Official At Bats
runs
Runs scored
hits
hits
doubles
doubles
triples
triples numeric vector
HR
Home runs
RBI
Runs batted in
BB
Base on balls
SO
Strike outs
BA
Batting Average
OBP
On Base percentage
SP
Slugging Percentage
AP
Adjusted productions
BR
batting runs
ABRuns
adjusted batting runs
Runs.Created
Runs created
SB
Stolen Bases
CS
Caught stealing
Stolen.Base.Runs
Runs scored by stealing
Fielding.Average
Fielding average
Fielding.Runs
Fielding runs
Primary.Position.Played
C = Catcher, 1 = First Base, 2 = Second Base, 3 = Third Base, S = Shortstop, O = Outfield, and D = Designated hitter
Total.Player.Rating
a numeric vector
Hall.Fame.Membership
Not a member, Elected by the BBWAA, or Chosen by the Old Timers Committee or Veterans Committee

Details

The sport of baseball lends itself to the collection of data. This data set contains many variables used to assess a players career. The Hall of Fame is reserved for outstanding players as judged initially by the Baseball Writers Association and subsequently by the Veterans Committee.

Source

This data set was submitted to the Journal of Statistical Education, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v8n2/datasets.cochran.new.cfm, by James J. Cochran.

Examples

data(hall.fame)
hist(hall.fame$OBP)
with(hall.fame,last[Hall.Fame.Membership != "not a member"])

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