mlb: Salary data for Major League Baseball (2010)

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Salary data for Major League Baseball (2010)

Description

Salary data for Major League Baseball players in the year 2010.

Usage

mlb

Format

A data frame with 828 observations on the following 4 variables.

player

Player name

team

Team

position

Field position

salary

Salary (in $1000s)

Source

https://databases.usatoday.com/mlb-salaries/, retrieved 2011-02-23.

Examples

# _____ Basic Histogram _____ #
hist(mlb$salary / 1000,
  breaks = 15,
  main = "", xlab = "Salary (millions of dollars)", ylab = "",
  axes = FALSE,
  col = "#22558844"
)
axis(1, seq(0, 40, 10))
axis(2, c(0, 500))
axis(2, seq(100, 400, 100), rep("", 4), tcl = -0.2)

# _____ Histogram on Log Scale _____ #
hist(log(mlb$salary / 1000),
  breaks = 15,
  main = "", xlab = "log(Salary)", ylab = "",
  axes = FALSE, col = "#22558844"
)
axis(1) # , seq(0, 40, 10))
axis(2, seq(0, 300, 100))

# _____ Box plot of log(salary) against position _____ #
boxPlot(log(mlb$salary / 1000), mlb$position, horiz = TRUE, ylab = "")

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