AllstarFull table

Description

All Star appearances by players

Usage

data(AllstarFull)

Format

A data frame with 5655 observations on the following 8 variables.

playerID

Player ID code

yearID

Year

gameNum

Game number (for years in which more than one game was played)

gameID

Game ID code

teamID

Team; a factor

lgID

League; a factor with levels AL NL

GP

Game played (zero if player did not appear in game)

startingPos

If the player started, what position he played

Source

Lahman, S. (2025) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2024, 2025 version, https://sabr.org/lahman-database/

Examples

data(AllstarFull)

# find number of appearances by players in the All Star games
player_appearances <- with(AllstarFull, rev(sort(table(playerID))))

# How many All-Star players, in total?
length(player_appearances)

# density plot of the whole distribution
plot(density(player_appearances), main="Player appearances in All Star Games")
rug(jitter(player_appearances))

# who has played in more than 10 ASGs?
player_appearances[player_appearances > 10]
hist(player_appearances[player_appearances > 10])


# Hank Aaron's All-Star record:
subset(AllstarFull, playerID == "aaronha01")

# Years that Stan Musial played in the ASG:
with(AllstarFull, yearID[playerID == "musiast01"])

# Starting positions he played (NA means did not start)
with(AllstarFull, startingPos[playerID == "musiast01"])

# All-Star rosters from the 1966 ASG
subset(AllstarFull, gameID == "NLS196607120")

# All-Stars from the Washington Nationals
subset(AllstarFull, teamID == "WAS")

# Teams with the fewest All-Stars
rare <- names(which(table(AllstarFull$teamID) < 10))

# Records associated with the 'rare' teams:
# (There are a few teamID typos: can you spot them?)
subset(AllstarFull, teamID %in% rare)