SeriesPost {Lahman} | R Documentation

## SeriesPost table

### Description

Post season series information

### Usage

    data(SeriesPost)

### Format

A data frame with 316 observations on the following 9 variables.

`yearID`

  Year

`round`

  Level of playoffs

`teamIDwinner`

  Team ID of the team that won the series; a factor

`lgIDwinner`

  League ID of the team that won the series; a factor with levels `AL` `NL`

`teamIDloser`

  Team ID of the team that lost the series; a factor

`lgIDloser`

  League ID of the team that lost the series; a factor with levels `AL` `NL`

`wins`

  Wins by team that won the series

`losses`

  Losses by team that won the series

`ties`

  Tie games

### Source

Lahman, S. (2017) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-206, 2016 version, http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/

### Examples

    data(SeriesPost)

    # How many times has each team won the World Series?

    # Notes:
    # - the SeriesPost table includes an identifier for the
    # team (teamID), but not the franchise (e.g. the Brooklyn Dodgers
    # [BRO] and Los Angeles Dodgers [LAN] are counted separately)
    #
    # - the World Series was first played in 1903, but the
    # Lahman data tables have the final round of the earlier
    # playoffs labelled "WS", so it is necessary to
    # filter the SeriesPost table to exclude years prior to 1903.

    # using the dplyr data manipulation package
    library("dplyr")
    library("tidyr")
    library("ggplot2")

    ## WS winners, arranged in descending order of titles won
    ws_winner_table <- SeriesPost %>%
      filter(yearID > "1902", round == "WS") %>%
      group_by(teamIDwinner) %>%
      summarise(wincount = n()) %>%
      arrange(desc(wincount))
    ws_winner_table

    ## Expanded form of World Series team data in modern era

    ws <- SeriesPost %>%
            filter(yearID >= 1903 & round == "WS") %>%
            select(-ties, -round) %>%
            mutate(lgIDloser = droplevels(lgIDloser),
                   lgIDwinner = droplevels(lgIDwinner))

    # Bar chart of length of series (# games played)
    # 1903, 1919 and 1921 had eight games
    ggplot(ws, aes(x = wins + losses)) +
      geom_bar(fill = "dodgerblue") +
      labs(x = "Number of games", y = "Frequency")

    # Last year the Cubs appeared in the WS
    ws %>%
      filter(teamIDwinner == "CHN" | teamIDloser == "CHN") %>%
      summarise(max(yearID))

    # Dot chart of number of WS appearances by teamID
    ws %>%
      gather(wl, team, teamIDwinner, teamIDloser) %>%
      count(team) %>%
      arrange(desc(n)) %>%
      ggplot(., aes(x = reorder(team, n), y = n)) +
        theme_bw() +
        geom_point(size = 3, color = "dodgerblue") +
        geom_segment(aes(xend = reorder(team, n), yend = 0),
                     linetype = "dotted", color = "dodgerblue",
                     size = 1) +
        labs(x = NULL, y = "Number of WS appearances") +
        scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0, 0), limits = c(0, 42)) +
        coord_flip() +
        theme(axis.text.y = element_text(size = rel(0.8)),
              axis.ticks.y = element_blank())

    # Initial year of each round of championship series in modern era
    SeriesPost %>%
        filter(yearID >= 1903) %>%   # modern WS started in 1903
        group_by(round) %>%
        summarise(first_year = min(yearID)) %>%
        arrange(first_year)

    # Ditto, but with more information about each series played
    SeriesPost %>%
      filter(yearID >= 1903) %>%
      group_by(round) %>%
      arrange(yearID) %>%
      do(head(., 1)) %>%
      select(-lgIDwinner, -lgIDloser) %>%
      arrange(yearID, round)

[Package Lahman version 6.0-0 Index]