fg_fielder_leaders: *Scrape Fielder Leaderboards from FanGraphs*

In BillPetti/baseballr: Acquiring and Analyzing Baseball Data

Scrape Fielder Leaderboards from FanGraphs

Description

This function allows you to scrape all leaderboard statistics (basic and advanced) from FanGraphs.com.

Usage

fg_fielder_leaders(
  age = "",
  pos = "all",
  stats = "fld",
  lg = "all",
  qual = "0",
  startseason = "2023",
  endseason = "2023",
  startdate = "",
  enddate = "",
  month = "0",
  hand = "",
  team = "0",
  pageitems = "10000",
  pagenum = "1",
  ind = "0",
  rost = "0",
  players = "",
  type = "1",
  postseason = "",
  sortdir = "default",
  sortstat = "Defense"
)

Arguments

age	(integer) Age of players
pos	(character) Position of players, defaults to "all". To exclude pitchers, use "np".
stats	(character) Statistic to return. Defaults to "bat".
lg	(character) League to return. Defaults to "all". Options are "al", "nl", or "all".
qual	(character) Whether you want only batters/pitchers that qualified in a given season, or the minimum number of plate appearances for inclusion. If you only want qualified hitters, use qual. If a minimum number of plate appearaces/innings pitched, use the number desired. Defaults to "y".
startseason	(character) Season for which you want to scrape the data.
endseason	(character) Last season for which you want data.
startdate	(character) Start date for which you want data.
enddate	(character) End date for which you want data.
month	(character) Month for which you want data.
hand	(character) Handedness of batter. Options are "L", "R", or "B". Empty string returns all.
team	(character) Teams for which you want data, comma separated.
pageitems	(character) Number of items per page.
pagenum	(character) Page number.
ind	(character) Whether or not to break the seasons out individual, or roll them up together. 1 = split seasons, 0 = aggregate seasons.
rost	(character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include, 0 = exclude.
players	(character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include only active roster players, 0 = exclude.
type	(character) Defaults to 8, which is the standard leaderboard. The values for the leaderboards appear to go to from type = 0 to 48+, which correspond to links on the leaderboard page.
postseason	(logical) Whether or not to include postseason data. TRUE = include postseason, FALSE = exclude postseason.
sortdir	(character) Sort direction. Options are "asc" or "desc" or "default".
sortstat	(character) Sort by stat. Default is "Defense".

Value

A data frame of fielder data.

col_name	types
Season	integer
team_name	character
xMLBAMID	integer
PlayerNameRoute	character
PlayerName	character
playerid	integer
SeasonMin	integer
SeasonMax	integer
Pos	character
G	integer
GS	integer
Inn	numeric
PO	integer
A	integer
E	integer
FE	integer
TE	integer
DP	integer
DPS	integer
DPT	integer
DPF	integer
SB	integer
CS	integer
PB	integer
WP	integer
FP	numeric
rSB	integer
rGFP	integer
rSZ	numeric
rCERA	integer
DRS	integer
Defense	numeric
CStrikes	numeric
CFraming	numeric
Q	numeric
TInn	numeric
teamid	integer
team_name_abb	character
rARM	integer
rPM	integer
BIZ	integer
Plays	integer
RZR	numeric
OOZ	integer
ARM	numeric
RngR	numeric
ErrR	numeric
UZR	numeric
UZR_150	numeric
OAA	integer
rFRP	integer
rGDP	integer
DPR	numeric
Scp	integer

Examples

  try(fg_fielder_leaders(startseason = 2023, endseason = 2023))

BillPetti/baseballr documentation built on April 17, 2024, 6:21 a.m.