| MLB_teams {mdsr} | R Documentation |
Data about recent major league baseball teams
Description
A dataset containing information about Major League Baseball teams from 2008-2014.
Usage
MLB_teams
Format
A tbl_df object.
- yearID
season in which the team played
- teamID
the team's three character identifier
- lgID
the league in which the team played
- W
number of wins
- L
number of losses
- WPct
winning percentage
- attendance
number of fans in attendance
- normAttend
number of fans in attendance, relative to the team with the highest attendance in this sample (the 2008 New York Yankees)
- payroll
the sum of the salaries of the players on each team. Note that this number is only an estimate of the actual team payroll – and may not even be a very good one. Salaries are accumulated from
Salaries- metroPop
the size of the team's home city's metropolitan population, according to Wikipedia and the 2010 US Census
- name
the full name of the team
Source
The Teams table from Lahman-package
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas