elo_blatter {fivethirtyeight}

Blatter's Reign At FIFA Hasn't Helped Soccer's Poor

Description

The raw data behind the story "Blatter's Reign At FIFA Hasn't Helped Soccer's Poor" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/blatters-reign-at-fifa-hasnt-helped-soccers-poor/.

Usage

elo_blatter

Format

A data frame with 191 rows representing countries and 5 variables:

country

FIFA member country

elo98

The team's Elo in 1998

elo15

The team's Elo in 2015

confederation

Confederation to which country belongs

gdp06

The country's purchasing power parity GDP as of 2006

popu06

The country's 2006 population

gdp_source

Source for gdp06

popu_source

Source for popu06

Source

See https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/elo-blatter.