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pitchRx (version 1.4)

Tools for Harnessing MLBAM Gameday data and Visualizing PITCHf/x

Description

With pitchRx, one can easily obtain Major League Baseball Advanced Media's Gameday data (as well as store it in a remote database). The Gameday website hosts a wealth of data in XML format, but perhaps most interesting is PITCHf/x. Among other things, PITCHf/x data can be used to recreate a baseball's flight path from a pitcher's hand to home plate. With pitchRx, one can easily create animations and interactive 3D scatterplots of the baseball's flight path. PITCHf/x data is also commonly used to generate a static plot of baseball locations at the moment they cross home plate. These plots, sometimes called strike-zone plots, can also refer to a plot of event probabilities over the same region. pitchRx provides an easy and robust way to generate strike-zone plots using the ggplot2 package.

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install.packages('pitchRx')

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1.4

License

MIT + file LICENSE

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Last Published

May 27th, 2014

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