similarityToolPitchingProj: Pitching Similarity Tool (Projection)

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

Usage

similarityToolPitchingProj(battedBallVals, playerName, numResults = 10)

Arguments

battedBallVals	A dataframe of batted ball data from FanGraphs.
playerVals	A dataframe containing a player's offensive peripheral data. i.e. PlayerVals = data.frame("LD%" = .xxx, "GB%" = .xxx, "FB%" = .xxx, "Pull%" = .xxx, "Cent%" = .xxx, "Oppo%" = .xxx, "Soft%" = .xxx, "Med%" = .xxx, "Hard%" = .xxx, "HR/FB" = .xxx, "K%" = .xxx, "BB%" = .xxx check.names=FALSE)
numResults	An integer. Defaults to 10.

Details

BattedBallVals are designed to be from FanGraphs, using the Batted Ball tab. 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/9, BB/9, Name. Player Vals must be formatted as decimals.

Value

A dataframe with the players most similar to the given playerVals and their similarity scores.

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.