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Baseball Data
Description
Baseball data.
Usage
data("Baseball")
Format
A data frame with 322 observations and 25 variables.
- name1
- player's first name.
- name2
- player's last name.
- atbat86
- times at Bat: number of official plate appearances by
a hitter. It counts as an official at-bat as long as the batter
does not walk, sacrifice, get hit by a pitch or reach base due to
catcher's interference.
- hits86
- hits.
- homer86
- home runs.
- runs86
- the number of runs scored by a player. A run is
scored by an offensive player who advances from batter to runner
and touches first, second, third and home base in that order
without being put out.
- rbi86
- Runs Batted In: A hitter earns a run batted in when he
drives in a run via a hit, walk, sacrifice (bunt or fly) fielder's
choice, hit-batsman or on an error (when the official scorer rules
that the run would have scored anyway).
- walks86
- A “walk” (or “base on balls”) is an
award of first base granted to a batter who receives four pitches
outside the strike zone.
- years
- Years in the Major Leagues. Seems to count all years a
player has actually played in the Major Leagues, not necessarily
consecutive.
- atbat
- career times at bat.
- hits
- career hits.
- homeruns
- career homeruns.
- runs
- career runs.
- rbi
- career runs batted in.
- walks
- career walks.
- league86
- player's league.
- div86
- player's division.
- team86
- player's team.
- posit86
- player's position (see
Hitters
).
- outs86
- number of putouts (see
Hitters
)
- assist86
- number of assists (see
Hitters
)
- error86
- number of assists (see
Hitters
)
- sal87
- annary salary on opening day (in USD 1000).
- league87
- league in 1987.
- team87
- team in 1987.
Source
SAS System for Statistical Graphics, First Edition, page A2.3
References
M. Friendly (2000),
Visualizing Categorical Data.
SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
See Also
Hitters
Examples
data("Baseball")
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