Analyzing Baseball Data with R

ARetrosheet Files Reference

Contents

1. A.1 Downloading Play-by-Play Files
   1. A.1.1 Introduction
   2. A.1.2 Setup
   3. A.1.3 Using a special function for a particular season
   4. A.1.4 Reading the files into R
   5. A.1.5 The function parse.retrosheet.pbp
2. A.2 Retrosheet Event Files: a Short Reference
   1. A.2.1 Game and event identifiers
   2. A.2.2 The state of the game
3. A.3 Parsing Retrosheet Pitch Sequences
   1. A.3.1 Introduction
   2. A.3.2 Setup
   3. A.3.3 Evaluating every count

A.1 Downloading Play-by-Play Files

A.1.1 Introduction

The play-by-play data files are currently available at the Retrosheet Web page www.retrosheet.org/game.htm. By clicking on a single year, say 1950, one obtains a compressed (zip) file containing a collection of files, one set of files containing information on the plays for ...