williazo/rwindow.baseball

R package for analyzing the length of a teams window in MLB. Pulls data from baseball-reference

rwindow.baseball

The goal of rwindow.baseball is to pull data from baseball-reference so that we can examine the relative length of competitive window for each team in MLB over time.

Installation

You can install rwindow.baseball from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("williazo/rwindow.baseball")

Team Abbreviations

Below is a table that lists the appropriate team abbreviations to use

Team	Full Name	Division
BOS	Boston Red Sox	American League: East
NYY	New York Yankees	American League: East
TOR	Toronto Blue Jays	American League: East
BAL	Baltimore Orioles	American League: East
TBR	Tampa Bay Rays	American League: East
HOU	Houston Astros	American League: West
LAA	Los Angeles Angels	American League: West
SEA	Seattle Mariners	American League: West
TEX	Texas Rangers	American League: West
OAK	Oakland Athletics	American League: West
CLE	Cleveland Indians	American League: Central
MIN	Minnesota Twins	American League: Central
KCR	Kansas City Royals	American League: Central
CHW	Chicago White Sox	American League: Central
DET	Detroit Tigers	American League: Central
WSN	Washington Nationals	National League: East
MIA	Miami Marlins	National League: East
ATL	Atlanta Braves	National League: East
NYM	New York Mets	National League: East
PHI	Philadelphia Phillies	National League: East
SFG	San Francisco Giants	National League: West
SDP	San Diego Padres	National League: West
COL	Colorado Rockies	National League: West
ARI	Arizona Diamondbacks	National League: West
LAD	Los Angeles Dodgers	National League: West
CHC	Chicago Cubs	National League: Central
MIL	Milwaukee Brewers	National League: Central
STL	St Louis Cardinals	National League: Central
PIT	Pittsburgh Pirates	National League: Central
CIN	Cincinnati Reds	National League: Central

Example

The first example shows how to pull basic contract information from baseball-reference. We will pull the current contract status of the Boston Red Sox as an example.

The first data.frame in the list provides player specific contract information as of 2017, while the second data.frame provides a general team summary information.

library(rwindow.baseball)
bos_sal <- tm_contract("BOS")
player_salary <- bos_sal[[1]]
head(player_salary)

bos_summary <- bos_sal[[2]]
bos_summary

We can also pull the game by game results for every team starting from the year 2000. This time we will try pulling the game results for the Colorado Rockies from 2007, the year the team advanced to play the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.

col_game <- tm_standings_schedule("COL", 2007)
#find the maximum winning streak
max(lengths(regmatches(col_game$Streak, gregexpr("[+]", col_game$Streak))))
#longest losing streak
max(lengths(regmatches(col_game$Streak, gregexpr("[-]", col_game$Streak))))

Also, you can pull a range of years for a specific team using the start_year and end_year options in tm_standings_schedule(). Below I pull game results for the Detroit Tigers from the 2000-2010 seasons.

tiger_games <- tm_standings_schedule("DET", start_year = 2000, end_year = 2010)
tiger_games <- tiger_games[order(tiger_games$Gm.), ]
#which years did the Tigers win the opening game
opening_day <-  tiger_games[tiger_games$Gm.==1, ]
tiger_games[which(opening_day$W.L=="W"), "Year"]