Lahman (version 2.0-3)

Master: Master table

Description

Master table - Player names, DOB, and biographical info. This file is to be used to get details about players listed in the Batting, Pitching, and other files where players are identified only by playerID.

Usage

data(Master)

source

Lahman, S. (2010) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2012, 2012 version, http://baseball1.com/statistics/

Details

debut, finalGame were converted from character strings with as.Date.

Examples

data(Master); data(Batting)

## add player's name to Batting data
Master$name <- paste(Master$nameFirst, Master$nameLast, sep='')
batting <- merge(Batting, 
                 Master[,c("playerID","name")], 
                 by="playerID", all.x=TRUE)

## batting and throwing
# right-handed batters are much less ambidexterous in throwing than left-handed batters
# (should only include batters)

BT <- with(Master, table(bats, throws))
require(vcd)
structable(BT)
mosaic(BT, shade=TRUE)

## Who is Shoeless Joe Jackson?
subset(Master, nameLast=="Jackson" & nameFirst=="Joe")
joeID <-c(subset(Master, nameLast=="Jackson" & nameFirst=="Joe")["playerID"])

subset(Batting, playerID==joeID)
subset(Fielding, playerID==joeID)