Bundesliga {perryExamples}

Austrian Bundesliga football player data

Description

The data set contains information on the market value of midfielders and forwards in the Austrian Bundesliga, together with player information and performance measures. The data are collected for the (still ongoing) 2013/14 season, with performance measures referring to competitions on the Austrian level (Bundesliga, Cup) or the European level (UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League). Only players with complete information are included in the data set.

Usage

data("Bundesliga")

Format

A data frame with 123 observations on the following 20 variables.

Player

factor; the player's name.

Team

factor; the player's team.

MarketValue

numeric; the player's market value (in Euros).

Age

numeric; the player's age (in years).

Height

numeric; the player's height (in cm).

Foreign

a dummy variable indicating whether the player is foreign or Austrian.

Forward

a dummy variable indicating whether the player is a forward or midfielder.

BothFeet

a dummy variable indicating whether the player is equally strong with both feet or has one stronger foot.

AtClub

numeric; the number of seasons the player is with his current club (at the upcoming transfer window).

Contract

numeric; the remaining number of seasons in the player's contract (at the upcoming transfer window).

Matches

numeric; the number of matches in which the player was on the field.

Goals

numeric; the number of goals the player scored.

OwnGoals

numeric; the number of own goals the player scored.

Assists

numeric; the number of assists the player gave.

Yellow

numeric; the number of yellow cards the player received.

YellowRed

numeric; the number of times the player was sent off with two yellow cards within one game.

Red

numeric; the number of times the player was sent off with a red card.

SubOn

numeric; the number of times the player was substituted on.

SubOff

numeric; the number of times the player was substituted off.

Minutes

numeric; the total number of minutes the player was on the field.

Source

The data were scraped from http://www.transfermarkt.com on 2014-03-02.

Examples

data("Bundesliga")
summary(Bundesliga)