Welcome to Lahman Baseball Database project!

This database contains pitching, hitting, and fielding statistics for Major League Baseball from 1871 through 2012. As an R package, it offers a variety of interesting challenges and opportunities for data processing and visualization in R.

Team Lahman: Michael Friendly, Dennis Murphy, Martin Monkman, Chris Dalzell

Contents

• The R-Forge project summary page is here.
• HTML documentation for the Lahman package, with the results of all examples.
• Martin's Bayes ball blog
  • Baseball run scoring trends by league (and gist code)
  • Using the ddplyr package for analysis, summary and manipulation of the Lahman Master, Batting and Fielding tables (Gist code)
• Ramnath Vaidyanathan shows in a blog post how to create an interactive graphic of strikeouts per game by team using the rCharts package.
• Other baseball visualizations and analyses:
• An impressive interactive chart of Hall of Fame voting trajectories. The original exploratory visualizations were created in R, and then made interactive using d3 and other javascript libraries.