snooker_events: Snooker events
In comperank: Ranking Methods for Competition Results

Data set describing snooker events in seasons 2016/2017 and 2017/2018.

1	snooker_events

A tibble with one row per event and the following columns:

id <int> : Event identifier in snooker.org database (used in eventId column of snooker_matches).
season <int> : Season identifier (by the year of season start).
name <chr> : Event name.
startDate <dttm> : Start date of event.
endDate <dttm> : End date of event.
sponsor <chr> : Event sponsor name.
type <chr> : Event type ("Invitational", "Qualifying", or "Ranking").
venue <chr> : Venue name event was played.
city <chr> : City name event was played.
country <chr> : Country name event was played.

Data is taken from snooker.org (http://www.snooker.org/) API.

This data set has information about events that have all following qualities:

It has "Invitational", "Qualifying", or "Ranking" type.
It describes traditional snooker (not 6 Red or Power Snooker) between individual players (not teams).
Both genders can take part (not only men or women).
Players of all ages can take part (not only seniors or under 21).
It is not "Shoot-Out" as those events are treated differently in snooker.org database.

Snooker players, snooker matches

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