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baseball: Yearly batting records for all major league baseball players

Description

This data frame contains batting statistics for a subset of players collected from http://www.baseball-databank.org/. There are a total of 21,699 records, covering 1,228 players from 1871 to 2007. Only players with more 15 seasons of play are included.

Usage

baseball

Arguments

Format

A 21699 x 22 data frame

Variables

Variables:

  • id, unique player id

  • year, year of data

  • stint

  • team, team played for

  • lg, league

  • g, number of games

  • ab, number of times at bat

  • r, number of runs

  • h, hits, times reached base because of a batted, fair ball without error by the defense

  • X2b, hits on which the batter reached second base safely

  • X3b, hits on which the batter reached third base safely

  • hr, number of home runs

  • rbi, runs batted in

  • sb, stolen bases

  • cs, caught stealing

  • bb, base on balls (walk)

  • so, strike outs

  • ibb, intentional base on balls

  • hbp, hits by pitch

  • sh, sacrifice hits

  • sf, sacrifice flies

  • gidp, ground into double play

References

http://www.baseball-databank.org/