Analyzing Baseball Data with R

1The Baseball Datasets

Contents

1. 1.1 Introduction
2. 1.2 The Lahman Database: Season-by-Season Data
   1. 1.2.1 Bonds, Aaron, and Ruth home run trajectories
   2. 1.2.2 Obtaining the database
   3. 1.2.3 The Master table
   4. 1.2.4 The Batting table
   5. 1.2.5 The Pitching table
   6. 1.2.6 The Fielding table
   7. 1.2.7 The Teams table
   8. 1.2.8 Baseball questions
3. 1.3 Retrosheet Game-by-Game Data
   1. 1.3.1 The 1998 McGwire and Sosa home run race
   2. 1.3.2 Retrosheet
   3. 1.3.3 Game logs
   4. 1.3.4 Obtaining the game logs from Retrosheet
   5. 1.3.5 Game log example
   6. 1.3.6 Baseball questions
4. 1.4 Retrosheet Play-by-Play Data
   1. 1.4.1 Event files
   2. 1.4.2 Event example
   3. 1.4.3 Baseball questions
5. 1.5 Pitch-by-Pitch Data
   1. 1.5.1 MLBAM Gameday and PITCHf/x
   2. 1.5.2 PITCHf/x Example
   3. 1.5.3 Baseball questions
6. 1.6 Summary
7. 1.7 Further Reading
8. 1.8 Exercises

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