Sch8889 {NHLData}

1988-1989 Season Results

Description

Contains scores for every game of the 1988-1989 season of the NHL

Usage

data("Sch8889")

Format

A data frame with 922 observations on the following 9 variables.

Date

The date the game was played

Home

The name of the home team

Away

The name of the away team

GF

Goals for the home team

GA

Goals against the home Team

GDH

Goal differential from the home team's perspective: GDH = GF - GA

OT

Indicates if the game went into Overtime

Tie

Indicates if the game ended in a tie

Playoff

Indicates if the game was a playoff game

Note

Team names refer to the latest name which the team has gone under. For example, the Toronto Maple Leafs were founded as the the Toronto Arenas for the 1917-1918 season, changed the name to the Toronto St. Patricks starting in the 1919-1920 season, and changed their name again going into the 1926-1927 season to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In this dataset, Toronto Maple Leafs refer to all three teams.

Source

www.hockey-reference.com

Examples

data(Sch8889)

## This command will show the results for the first game of the season.
Sch8889[1,]