prospect_cube: Pull Prospect Rankings

In williazo/rwindow.baseball: Data Analysis Tools for Estimating Window of Competition in MLB

Description

Scrape data from http://www.thebaseballcube.com to look at the top 100 prospects list for each team or the top prospects by team. Can use this information to approximate the relative strength of each teams farm system.

Usage

prospect_cube(team, year, src = "BA", start_year = NULL, end_year = NULL)

Arguments

team	Specify the team abbreviation as character value. Use this value to pull the top prospects by team
year	Numeric year. Specifying the year will pull only the top 100 prospects. Default is to take the past full season if pulled in the offseason or the current season if pulled after opening day.
src	Character value specifying the source to use for the prospect rankings. Options are '"BA"' for Baseball America or '"PIPE"' for MLB Pipeline. Default is Baseball America
start_year	Numeric value that identifies the beginning year to pull a range of data for the team of interest. This is an optional parameter.
end_year	Numeric value that identifies the ending year to pull a range of data for the team of interest. This is an optional parameter.

Examples

#pulling top 100 prospectes from 2017
top_prospects <- prospect_cube(year = 2017, src = "PIPE")
table(top_prospects$current_lvl)

#pulling prospect rankings from Colorado Rockies from Baseball America
col_prospects <- prospect_cube(team = "COL", src = "BA")
library(dplyr)
top_prospects <- col_prospects %>%
                   group_by(Year)%>%
                   summarise(num_top_100 = sum(MLB!=""), avg_age = mean(as.numeric(Age)))
top_prospects <- top_prospects[order(top_prospects$num_top_100, decreasing = TRUE),]
top_prospects

williazo/rwindow.baseball documentation built on May 29, 2019, 11:47 a.m.