AwardsShareManagers: AwardsShareManagers table

In Lahman: Sean Lahman's Baseball Database

Description

Award voting for managers awards

Usage

data(AwardsShareManagers)

Format

A data frame with 385 observations on the following 7 variables.

awardID

name of award votes were received for

yearID

Year

lgID

League; a factor with levels AL NL

playerID

Manager (player) ID code

pointsWon

Number of points received

pointsMax

Maximum numner of points possible

votesFirst

Number of first place votes

Source

Lahman, S. (2014) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2013, 2014 version, http://baseball1.com/statistics/

Examples

# Voting for the BBWAA Manager of the Year award by year and league

require(plyr)

# Sort in decreasing order of points by year and league
MOYsort <- ddply(AwardsShareManagers, .(yearID, lgID), arrange, desc(pointsWon))

# Any unanimous winners?
subset(AwardsShareManagers, pointsWon == pointsMax)

# OK, how about highest proportion of possible points?
AwardsShareManagers[with(AwardsShareManagers, which.max(pointsWon/pointsMax)), ]

# Bobby Cox's MOY vote tallies
subset(AwardsShareManagers, playerID == "coxbo01")

Lahman documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:25 p.m.