similarityToolMostUniqueOff: Most Unique Players per Offensive Peripheral Data

In Metlover/similarityTool: Using Fangraphs Data, Generates Similarity Scores for Batters

Description

Finds the players who are most unique to all other players in a given dataset of offensive peripheral data from FanGraphs

Usage

similarityToolMostUniqueOff(battedBallVals, numResults = 10)

Arguments

battedBallVals	A dataframe of offensive peripheral data from FanGraphs.
numResults	An integer. Defaults to 10.

Details

BattedBallVals are designed to be from FanGraphs, using the Batted Ball tab in conjunction with BB% and K% (use FanGraph's custom reports tool to generate this report). They must contain all of the following attributes (other values can be included, but will not be used): GB%, LD%, FB%, HR/FB, Pull%, Cent%, Oppo%, Soft%, Med%, Hard%, K%, BB%, Name.

Value

A dataframe of the players with the highest net similarity score.

Note

Similarity scores will differ depending upon the sample size presented due to the normalization applied in the creation of the scores.

Author(s)

John Edwards

Metlover/similarityTool documentation built on May 22, 2019, 1:03 p.m.