Aggregated statistics for minor league players have been available for some time through sites like FanGraphs, Baseball-Reference, and MiLB.com. However, pitch-level data similar to what is availabel for MLB is not easy to find.
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Creating a Restrosheet Event and Roster Database Using R and baseballr
Retrosheet remains one of the very best data resources for the game of baseball. While we are all used to play-by-play data being readily availabel through Baseball Savant, if you really want to do any kind of research relying on that kind of data before 2008, Retrosheet is the only...
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Directly Downloading Statcast Leaderboards with baseballr
BaseballSavant recently made their series of leaderboards available through csv downloads. The baseballr package now includes a function that allows users to directly read these leaderboard csv’s into R.
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Scraping Non-table Content Using rvest
A friend of mine was looking for a reference to help him make some choices about which books to order and the quality of the pricing. Essentially, he wanted to see what competitor outlets were offering for different books.
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NCAA Men's Tournament First Round Recap & Second Round Predictions for 2018
After the first day, my model was feeling pretty good about itself. It correctly picked 13/16 games, had the Loyola-Chicago upset, and had me in the top 6% in the Google-Kaggle competition.
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