soccer: Danish national soccer players

In MESS: Miscellaneous Esoteric Statistical Scripts

Danish national soccer players

Description

Players on the Danish national soccer team. The dataset consists of all players who have been picked to play on the men's senior A-team, their position, date-of-birth, goals and matches.

Format

A data frame with 805 observations on the following 5 variables.

name

a factor with names of the players

DoB

a Date. The date-of-birth of the player

position

a factor with levels Forward Defender Midfielder Goalkeeper

matches

a numeric vector. The number of A matches played by the player

goals

a numeric vector. The number of goals scored by the player in A matches

Source

Data collected from the player database of DBU on March 21st, 2014. See https://www.dbu.dk for more information.

Examples

data(soccer)

birthmonth <- as.numeric(format(soccer$DoB, "%m"))
birthyear <- as.numeric(format(soccer$DoB, "%Y"))

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