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Getting Started with baseballr

Getting started with using baseballr and men’s baseball data.

NCAA Scraping

Pulling college baseball player and team statistics from the NCAA’s website with ncaa_scrape(), including batting, pitching and fielding splits by season.

Plotting Statcast data

Drawing strike-zone plots and pitch locations from Statcast data with ggplot2, including how to place the zone correctly for left- and right-handed batters.

Using Statcast Pitch Data

Working with pitch-by-pitch Statcast data from Baseball Savant - acquiring it with statcast_search() and shaping it for pitch-level analysis.