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goose: The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It.

Description

The raw data behind the story "The Save Ruined Relief Pitching. The Goose Egg Can Fix It." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/goose-egg-new-save-stat-relief-pitchers/.

Usage

goose

Format

Because of R package size restrictions, only a preview of the first 10 rows of this dataset is included; to obtain the entire dataset (30,533 rows) see Examples below. The preview is a data frame with 10 rows representing pitchers and 12 variables:

name

Pitcher name

year

Start year of season

team

Retrosheet team code

league

NL or AL

goose_eggs

Goose eggs

broken_eggs

Broken eggs

mehs

Mehs

league_average_gpct

League-average goose percentage

ppf

Pitcher park factor

replacement_gpct

Replacement-level goose percentage

gwar

Goose Wins Above Replacement

key_retro

Retrosheet unique player identifier

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# To obtain the entire dataset, run the following code:
library(readr)
library(dplyr)
goose <- 
  "https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/raw/master/goose/goose_rawdata.csv" %>% 
  read_csv(na = c("", "NA"))
# }