BaseballTimesR Documentation

Baseball Game Times of One Day in 2008

Description

Game times and boxscore information for baseball games

Format

A data frame with 15 observations on the following 7 variables.

Game Code for opposing teams
League AL= American League or NL=National League
Runs Total number of runs scored (both teams)
Margin Margin of victory (Winner-Loser score)
Pitchers Total number of pitchers used (both teams
Attendance Number of spectators at the game
Time Total time for the game (in minutes)

Details

Data were collected for 15 Major League Baseball (MLB) games played on August 26, 2008.

This dataset was used in first edition, but updated to BaseballTimes2017 for the second edition.

Source

Data from boxscores at www.baseball-reference.com