Results of NCAA basketball games
Format
Nine variables describing NCAA Division I basketball games.
- date
date on which game was played
- away
visiting team
- ascore
visiting team's score
- home
home team
- hscore
home team's score
- notes
code indicting games played at neutral sites (n or N) or in tournaments (T)
- location
where game was played
- season
a character indicating which season the game belonged to
- postseason
a logical indicating whether the game is a postseason game
Examples
data(NCAAbb)
# select one year and add some additional variables to the data frame
NCAA2010 <-
NCAAbb %>%
filter(season == "2009-10") %>%
mutate(
dscore = hscore - ascore,
homeTeamWon = dscore > 0,
numHomeTeamWon <- -1 + 2 * as.numeric(homeTeamWon),
winner = ifelse(homeTeamWon, home, away),
loser = ifelse(homeTeamWon, away, home),
wscore = ifelse(homeTeamWon, hscore, ascore),
lscore = ifelse(homeTeamWon, ascore, hscore)
)
NCAA2010 %>% select(date, winner, loser, wscore, lscore, dscore, homeTeamWon) %>% head()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 7
#> date winner loser wscore lscore dscore homeTeamWon
#> <date> <chr> <chr> <int> <int> <int> <lgl>
#> 1 2009-11-09 Ohio St. Alcorn St. 100 60 40 TRUE
#> 2 2009-11-09 North Carolina Florida Internatio… 88 72 16 TRUE
#> 3 2009-11-09 Syracuse Albany 75 43 32 TRUE
#> 4 2009-11-09 California Murray St. 75 70 5 TRUE
#> 5 2009-11-11 Syracuse Robert Morris 100 60 40 TRUE
#> 6 2009-11-11 North Carolina North Carolina Cen… 89 42 47 TRUE