AwardsShareManagers table

Description

Award voting for managers awards

Usage

data(AwardsShareManagers)

Format

A data frame with 372 observations on the following 7 variables.

awardID

name of award votes were received for

yearID

Year

lgID

League; a factor with levels AL NL

managerID

Manager ID code

pointsWon

Number of points received

pointsMax

Maximum numner of points possible

votesFirst

Number of first place votes

Source

Lahman, S. (2010) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2012, 2012 version, http://baseball1.com/statistics/

Examples

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

require(plyr)

# Sort in decreasing order of points by year and league
MOYsort <- ddply(AwardsShareManagers, .(yearID, lgID), arrange, desc(pointsWon))

# Any unanimous winners?
subset(AwardsShareManagers, pointsWon == pointsMax)

## [1] awardID    yearID     lgID       managerID  pointsWon  pointsMax 
## [7] votesFirst
## <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

# OK, how about highest proportion of possible points?
AwardsShareManagers[with(AwardsShareManagers, which.max(pointsWon/pointsMax)), ]

##            awardID yearID lgID  managerID pointsWon pointsMax votesFirst
## 87 Mgr of the year   1991   AL kellyto01m       138       140         27

# Bobby Cox's MOY vote tallies
subset(AwardsShareManagers, managerID == "coxbo01m")

##             awardID yearID lgID managerID pointsWon pointsMax votesFirst
## 2   Mgr of the year   1983   AL  coxbo01m         4        28          4
## 9   Mgr of the year   1984   AL  coxbo01m         9       140          0
## 17  Mgr of the year   1985   AL  coxbo01m       104       140         16
## 95  Mgr of the year   1991   NL  coxbo01m        96       120         13
## 105 Mgr of the year   1992   NL  coxbo01m        29       120          1
## 120 Mgr of the year   1993   NL  coxbo01m        27       140          0
## 132 Mgr of the year   1994   NL  coxbo01m         3       140          0
## 147 Mgr of the year   1995   NL  coxbo01m        20       140          1
## 163 Mgr of the year   1996   NL  coxbo01m        24       140          3
## 174 Mgr of the year   1997   NL  coxbo01m         6       140          0
## 189 Mgr of the year   1998   NL  coxbo01m        17       160          0
## 198 Mgr of the year   1999   NL  coxbo01m        98       160         10
## 214 Mgr of the year   2000   NL  coxbo01m        41       160          1
## 228 Mgr of the Year   2001   NL  coxbo01m        12       160          2
## 238 Mgr of the Year   2002   NL  coxbo01m        93       160          9
## 253 Mgr of the Year   2003   NL  coxbo01m        56       160          6
## 264 Mgr of the year   2004   NL  coxbo01m       140       160         22
## 276 Mgr of the year   2005   NL  coxbo01m       152       160         28
## 327 Mgr of the year   2009   NL  coxbo01m        15       160          0
## 342 Mgr of the year   2010   NL  coxbo01m        28       160          1