AwardsShareManagers table

Description

Award voting for managers awards

Usage

data(AwardsShareManagers)

Format

A data frame with 526 observations on the following 7 variables.

awardID

name of award votes were received for

yearID

Year

lgID

League; a factor with levels AL NL

playerID

Manager (player) ID code

pointsWon

Number of points received

pointsMax

Maximum number of points possible

votesFirst

Number of first place votes

Source

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

Examples

# Voting for the BBWAA Manager of the Year award by year and league

require("dplyr")

# Sort in decreasing order of points by year and league
AwardsShareManagers %>%
   group_by(yearID, lgID) %>%
   arrange(desc(pointsWon))

# Any unanimous winners?
AwardsShareManagers %>%
  filter(pointsWon == pointsMax)

# Manager with highest proportion of possible points
AwardsShareManagers %>%
   mutate(propWon = pointsWon/pointsMax) %>%
   arrange(desc(propWon)) %>%
   head(., 1)

# Bobby Cox's MOY vote tallies
AwardsShareManagers %>%
  filter(playerID == "coxbo01")