hall.fame {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Data frame containing baseball statistics including Hall of Fame membership

### Description

A data frame containing baseball statistics for several players.

### Usage

    data(hall.fame)

### Format

A data frame with 1340 observations on the following 28 variables.

first
  first name
last
  last name
seasons
  Seasons played
games
  Games played
AB
  Official At Bats
runs
  Runs scored
hits
  hits
doubles
  doubles
triples
  triples numeric vector
HR
  Home runs
RBI
  Runs batted in
BB
  Base on balls
SO
  Strike outs
BA
  Batting Average
OBP
  On Base percentage
SP
  Slugging Percentage
AP
  Adjusted productions
BR
  batting runs
ABRuns
  adjusted batting runs
Runs.Created
  Runs created
SB
  Stolen Bases
CS
  Caught stealing
Stolen.Base.Runs
  Runs scored by stealing
Fielding.Average
  Fielding average
Fielding.Runs
  Fielding runs
Primary.Position.Played
  C = Catcher, 1 = First Base, 2 = Second Base, 3 = Third Base, S = Shortstop, O = Outfield, and D = Designated hitter
Total.Player.Rating
  a numeric vector
Hall.Fame.Membership
  Not a member, Elected by the BBWAA, or Chosen by the Old Timers Committee or Veterans Committee

### Details

The sport of baseball lends itself to the collection of data. This data set contains many variables used to assess a players career. The Hall of Fame is reserved for outstanding players as judged initially by the Baseball Writers Association and subsequently by the Veterans Committee.

### Source

This data set was submitted to the Journal of Statistical Education, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/secure/v8n2/datasets.cochran.new.cfm, by James J. Cochran.

### Examples

    data(hall.fame)
    hist(hall.fame$OBP)
    with(hall.fame,last[Hall.Fame.Membership != "not a member"])

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]