fg_bat_leaders function

(legacy) Scrape Batter Leaderboards from FanGraphs

(legacy) Scrape Batter Leaderboards from FanGraphs

(legacy) Scrape Batter Leaderboards from FanGraphs

fg_bat_leaders(
  age = "",
  pos = "all",
  stats = "bat",
  lg = "all",
  qual = "0",
  startseason = "2023",
  endseason = "2023",
  startdate = "",
  enddate = "",
  month = "0",
  hand = "",
  team = "0",
  pageitems = "10000",
  pagenum = "1",
  ind = "0",
  rost = "0",
  players = "",
  type = "8",
  postseason = "",
  sortdir = "default",
  sortstat = "WAR"
)

fg_bat_leaders(
  age = "",
  pos = "all",
  stats = "bat",
  lg = "all",
  qual = "0",
  startseason = "2023",
  endseason = "2023",
  startdate = "",
  enddate = "",
  month = "0",
  hand = "",
  team = "0",
  pageitems = "10000",
  pagenum = "1",
  ind = "0",
  rost = "0",
  players = "",
  type = "8",
  postseason = "",
  sortdir = "default",
  sortstat = "WAR"
)

Arguments

• age: (integer) Age of players
• pos: (character) Position of players, defaults to "all". To exclude pitchers, use "np".
• stats: (character) Statistic to return. Defaults to "bat".
• lg: (character) League to return. Defaults to "all". Options are "al", "nl", or "all".
• qual: (character) Whether you want only batters/pitchers that qualified in a given season, or the minimum number of plate appearances for inclusion. If you only want qualified hitters, use qual. If a minimum number of plate appearaces/innings pitched, use the number desired. Defaults to "y".
• startseason: (character) Season for which you want to scrape the data.
• endseason: (character) Last season for which you want data.
• startdate: (character) Start date for which you want data.
• enddate: (character) End date for which you want data.
• month: (character) Month for which you want data.
• hand: (character) Handedness of batter. Options are "L", "R", or "B". Empty string returns all.
• team: (character) Teams for which you want data, comma separated.
• pageitems: (character) Number of items per page.
• pagenum: (character) Page number.
• ind: (character) Whether or not to break the seasons out individual, or roll them up together. 1 = split seasons, 0 = aggregate seasons.
• rost: (character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include, 0 = exclude.
• players: (character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include only active roster players, 0 = exclude.
• type: (character) Defaults to 8, which is the standard leaderboard. The values for the leaderboards appear to go to from type = 0 to 48+, which correspond to links on the leaderboard page.
• postseason: (logical) Whether or not to include postseason data. TRUE = include postseason, FALSE = exclude postseason.
• sortdir: (character) Sort direction. Options are "asc" or "desc" or "default".
• sortstat: (character) Sort by stat. Default is "WAR".

Returns

A data frame of batter data.

A data frame of batter data.