Lahman (version 12.0-0)

AwardsShareManagers: AwardsShareManagers table

Description

Award voting for managers awards

Usage

data(AwardsShareManagers)

Format

A data frame with 510 observations on the following 7 variables.

awardID

name of award votes were received for

yearID

Year

lgID

League; a factor with levels AL NL

playerID

Manager (player) ID code

pointsWon

Number of points received

pointsMax

Maximum number of points possible

votesFirst

Number of first place votes

Examples

# Voting for the BBWAA Manager of the Year award by year and league

require("dplyr")

# Sort in decreasing order of points by year and league
AwardsShareManagers %>%
   group_by(yearID, lgID) %>%
   arrange(desc(pointsWon))

# Any unanimous winners?
AwardsShareManagers %>%
  filter(pointsWon == pointsMax)

# Manager with highest proportion of possible points
AwardsShareManagers %>%
   mutate(propWon = pointsWon/pointsMax) %>%
   arrange(desc(propWon)) %>%
   head(., 1)

# Bobby Cox's MOY vote tallies
AwardsShareManagers %>%
  filter(playerID == "coxbo01")