In Fackz/baseball: Functions for acquiring and analyzing baseball data

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The latest release of the baseballr includes a function for acquiring player statistics from the NCAA's website for baseball teams across the three major divisions (I, II, III).

The function, ncaa_scrape, requires the user to pass values for three parameters for the function to work:

school_id: numerical code used by the NCAA for each school year: a four-digit year type: whether to pull data for batters or pitchers

If you want to pull batting statistics for Vanderbilt for the 2013 season, you would use the following:

library(baseballr)
library(dplyr)
ncaa_scrape(736, 2013, "batting") %>%
  select(year:OBPct)

The same can be done for pitching, just by changing the type parameter:

ncaa_scrape(736, 2013, "pitching") %>%
  select(year:ERA)

Now, the function is dependent on the user knowing the school_id used by the NCAA website. Given that, I've included a school_id_lu function so that users can find the school_id they need.

Just pass a string to the function and it will return possible matches based on the school's name:

school_id_lu("Vand")

Fackz/baseball documentation built on June 25, 2019, 12:05 a.m.