english_football: English Football League Results 1888-2022

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English Football League Results 1888-2022

Description

This dataset, english_football, is a data frame containing results for English soccer games in the top 4 tiers from the 1888/89 season to the 2021/22 season. It includes information on match dates, seasons, home and visiting teams, full-time scores, goals scored, division, tier, and match outcomes.

Usage

data(english_football)

Format

A data frame with 203956 observations and 12 variables:

Date

Character vector indicating the date of the match

Season

Numeric vector indicating the season

home

Character vector indicating the home team

visitor

Character vector indicating the visiting team

FT

Character vector indicating the full-time score

hgoal

Integer vector indicating the number of goals scored by the home team

vgoal

Integer vector indicating the number of goals scored by the visiting team

division

Character vector indicating the division

tier

Numeric vector indicating the tier

totgoal

Integer vector indicating the total number of goals scored in the match

goaldif

Integer vector indicating the goal difference

result

Character vector indicating the match result

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'english_football' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the sportsR package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics.

Source

Data taken from the footBayes package version 2.0.0

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