BABERUTH: George Herman Ruth

In PASWR2: Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition

Description

Baseball statistics for George Herman Ruth (The Bambino or the Sultan of Swat)

Usage

BABERUTH

Format

A data frame with 22 observation of the following 14 variables:

• year (year in which the season occurred)

• team (team for which he played Bos-A, Bos-N, or NY-A)

• g (games played)

• ab (at bats)

• r (runs scored)

• h (hits)

• X2b (doubles)

• X3b (triples)

• hr (home runs)

• RBI (runs batted in)

• sb (stolen bases)

• bb (base on balls or walks)

• ba (batting average = h/ab)

• slg (slugging percentage = total bases/at bats)

Source

https://www.baseball-reference.com/about/bat_glossary.shtml

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. 2015. Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall / CRC.

Examples

ggplot(data = BABERUTH, aes(x = ba)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.03) + 
facet_grid(team ~ .) + labs(x = "Batting average")
ggplot(data = BABERUTH, aes(x = g, y = ab, color = rbi)) + geom_point() + 
labs(x = "Number of Games Played", y = "Times at Bat", color = "Runs\n Batted In", 
title = "George Herman Ruth")

PASWR2 documentation built on Sept. 5, 2021, 5:44 p.m.