prospect_fg: Pull FanGraphs Prospect Rankings from THE BOARD

Description Usage Arguments Examples

View source: R/prospect_fg.R

Description

Scrape data from https://www.fangraphs.com to look at the top prospects based on ratings from FanGraphs prospect analysts Can use this information to approximate the relative strength of each teams farm system.

Usage

1
2
prospect_fg(team, year, start_year = NULL, end_year = NULL, pos,
  scout_grades = FALSE)

Arguments

team

Specify the team abbreviation as character value. Use this value to pull the top prospects by team

year

Numeric year. Currently fangraphs has data only from 2017 and 2018.

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.

pos

Character value specifying a specific group of positions. By default position is set to all. See https://www.fangraphs.com/scoutboard.aspx?draft=2018prospect&type=0&pos=all&team=all for a list of all positions available.

scout_grades

Indicator to pull the scout grades for each prospect. Based on the 20-80 scale. Default is not to pull the grades and only pull the value. Options are 'TRUE' or 'FALSE'.

Examples

1
2
3
4
5
#pulling prospect rankings from the 2017 Colorado Rockies for all hitters
prospect_fg(year = 2017, team = "COL", pos = "BAT")

#pulling tool grades for 2017-2018 Los Angeles Dodgers
prospect_fg(start_year = 2017, end_year = 2018, team = "LAD", scout_grades = TRUE)

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