Managers {Lahman} | R Documentation

## Managers table

### Description

Managers table: information about individual team managers, teams they managed and some basic statistics for those teams in each year.

### Usage

    data(Managers)

### Format

A data frame with 3436 observations on the following 10 variables.

`playerID`

  Manager (player) ID code

`yearID`

  Year

`teamID`

  Team; a factor

`lgID`

  League; a factor with levels `AA` `AL` `FL` `NL` `PL` `UA`

`inseason`

  Managerial order. Zero if the individual managed the team the entire year. Otherwise denotes where the manager appeared in the managerial order (1 for first manager, 2 for second, etc.)

`G`

  Games managed

`W`

  Wins

`L`

  Losses

`rank`

  Team's final position in standings that year

`plyrMgr`

  Player Manager (denoted by 'Y'); a factor with levels `N` `Y`

### Source

Lahman, S. (2017) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2016, 2016 version, http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/

### Examples

    ####################################
    # Basic career summaries by manager
    ####################################

    library("dplyr")
    mgrSumm <- Managers %>%
                group_by(playerID) %>%
                summarise(nyear = length(unique(yearID)),
                          yearBegin = min(yearID),
                          yearEnd = max(yearID),
                          nTeams = length(unique(teamID)),
                          nfirst = sum(rank == 1L),
                          W = sum(W),
                          L = sum(L),
                          WinPct = round(W/(W + L), 3))

    MgrInfo <- Master %>%
                filter(!is.na(playerID)) %>%
                select(playerID, nameLast, nameFirst)

    # Merge names into the table
    mgrTotals <- right_join(MgrInfo, mgrSumm, by = "playerID")

    # add total games managed
    mgrTotals <- mgrTotals %>%
                  mutate(games = W + L)

    ##########################
    # Some basic queries
    ##########################

    # Top 20 managers in terms of years of service:
    mgrTotals %>%
       arrange(desc(nyear)) %>%
       head(., 20)

    # Top 20 winningest managers (500 games minimum)
    mgrTotals %>%
       filter((W + L) >= 500) %>%
       arrange(desc(WinPct)) %>%
       head(., 20)

    # Most of these are 19th century managers.
    # How about the modern era?
    mgrTotals %>%
       filter(yearBegin >= 1901 & (W + L) >= 500) %>%
       arrange(desc(WinPct)) %>%
       head(., 20)

    # Top 10 managers in terms of percentage of titles
    # (league or divisional) - should bias toward managers
    #  post-1970 since more first place finishes are available
    mgrTotals %>%
       filter(yearBegin >= 1901 & (W + L) >= 500) %>%
       arrange(desc(round(nfirst/nyear, 3))) %>%
       head(., 10)

    # How about pre-1969?
    mgrTotals %>%
      filter(yearBegin >= 1901 & yearEnd <= 1969 &
              (W + L) >= 500) %>%
      arrange(desc(round(nfirst/nyear, 3))) %>%
      head(., 10)

    ## Tony LaRussa's managerial record by team
    Managers %>%
      filter(playerID == "larusto01") %>%
      group_by(teamID) %>%
      summarise(nyear = length(unique(yearID)),
                yearBegin = min(yearID),
                yearEnd = max(yearID),
                games = sum(G),
                nfirst = sum(rank == 1L),
                W = sum(W),
                L = sum(L),
                WinPct = round(W/(W + L), 3))

    ##############################################
    # Density plot of the number of games managed:
    ##############################################

    library("ggplot2")

    ggplot(mgrTotals, aes(x = games)) +
        geom_density(fill = "red", alpha = 0.3) +
        labs(x = "Number of games managed")

    # Who managed more than 4000 games?
    mgrTotals %>%
      filter(W + L >= 4000) %>%
      arrange(desc(W + L))
    # Connie Mack's advantage: he owned the Philadelphia A's :)

    # Table of Tony LaRussa's team finishes (rank order):
    Managers %>%
       filter(playerID == "larusto01") %>%
       count(rank)

    ##############################################
    # Scatterplot of winning percentage vs. number
    # of games managed (min 100)
    ##############################################

    ggplot(subset(mgrTotals, yearBegin >= 1900 & games >= 100),
           aes(x = games, y = WinPct)) +
      geom_point() + geom_smooth() +
      labs(x = "Number of games managed")

    ############################################
    # Division titles
    ############################################

    # Plot of number of first place finishes by managers who
    # started in the divisional era (>= 1969) with
    # at least 8 years of experience

    mgrTotals %>%
      filter(yearBegin >= 1969 & nyear >= 8) %>%
      ggplot(., aes(x = nyear, y = nfirst)) +
         geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.2)) +
         labs(x = "Number of years",
              y = "Number of divisional titles") +
         geom_smooth()

    # Change response to proportion of titles relative
    # to years managed
    mgrTotals %>%
      filter(yearBegin >= 1969 & nyear >= 8) %>%
      ggplot(., aes(x = nyear, y = round(nfirst/nyear, 3))) +
         geom_point(position = position_jitter(width = 0.2)) +
         labs(x = "Number of years",
              y = "Proportion of divisional titles") +
         geom_smooth()

[Package Lahman version 6.0-0 Index]