hofpitching: Hall of Fame Pitchers

Description Format Source

Description

Data on the 70 pitchers inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as of the year 2013.

Format

A data frame with 147 observations on the following 32 variables.

Name

Player name

Rk

Unknown

Inducted

Year inducted into Hall of Fame

Yrs

Number of years planed in the Majors

From

First year in the Majors

To

Last year in the Majors

MidCareer

Middle year of player's career

Era

Era of Baseball history in which the player was (for the most part) active. Values are: 19th century (before 1900), Dead Ball (1900-1919), Lively Ball (1920-1940), Integration, (1941-1959), Expansion (1960-1975), Free Agency (1976-1992), Long Ball (1993 +).

ASG

Number of All-Star games played

WAR

Wins above replacement

W

Games won

L

Games lost

W.L.

proportion of games won

ERA

Earned run average

G

Games played

GS

Games started

GF

Games finished

CG

Complete games

SHO

Shut-outs

SV

Saves

IP

Innings pitched

H

Hits allowed

R

Runs allowed

ER

Earned Runs allowed

HR

Home Runs allowed

BB

Bases on Balls (number of "walks")

IBB

Intentional walks

SO

Strikeouts

HBP

Hit batter with pitch (?)

BK

Balks

WP

Wild Pitches

BF

Total batters faced

Source

Modified from Marchi and Albert: analyzing Baseball Data with R, CRC Press 2014.


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