AwardsShareManagers table
AwardsShareManagers.RdAward voting for managers awards
Usage
data(AwardsShareManagers)Format
A data frame with 526 observations on the following 7 variables.
awardIDname of award votes were received for
yearIDYear
lgIDLeague; a factor with levels
ALNLplayerIDManager (player) ID code
pointsWonNumber of points received
pointsMaxMaximum number of points possible
votesFirstNumber of first place votes
Source
Lahman, S. (2025) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2024, 2025 version, https://sabr.org/lahman-database/
Examples
# Voting for the BBWAA Manager of the Year award by year and league
require("dplyr")
# Sort in decreasing order of points by year and league
AwardsShareManagers %>%
group_by(yearID, lgID) %>%
arrange(desc(pointsWon))
#> # A tibble: 526 × 7
#> # Groups: yearID, lgID [84]
#> awardID yearID lgID playerID pointsWon pointsMax votesFirst
#> <chr> <int> <fct> <chr> <int> <int> <int>
#> 1 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2000 NL bakerdu… 154 160 30
#> 2 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2005 NL coxbo01 152 160 28
#> 3 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2011 NL gibsoki… 152 160 28
#> 4 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2009 NL tracyji… 151 160 29
#> 5 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2023 AL hydebr99 144 150 27
#> 6 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2024 NL murphpa… 144 150 27
#> 7 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2021 NL kaplega… 143 150 28
#> 8 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2024 AL vogtst01 142 150 27
#> 9 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2004 NL coxbo01 140 160 22
#> 10 BBWAA Manager of the Ye… 2013 NL hurdlcl… 140 150 25
#> # ℹ 516 more rows
# Any unanimous winners?
AwardsShareManagers %>%
filter(pointsWon == pointsMax)
#> [1] awardID yearID lgID playerID pointsWon pointsMax votesFirst
#> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
# Manager with highest proportion of possible points
AwardsShareManagers %>%
mutate(propWon = pointsWon/pointsMax) %>%
arrange(desc(propWon)) %>%
head(., 1)
#> awardID yearID lgID playerID pointsWon pointsMax votesFirst
#> 1 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1994 NL aloufe01 138 140 27
#> propWon
#> 1 0.9857143
# Bobby Cox's MOY vote tallies
AwardsShareManagers %>%
filter(playerID == "coxbo01")
#> awardID yearID lgID playerID pointsWon pointsMax
#> 1 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1983 AL coxbo01 4 28
#> 2 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1984 AL coxbo01 9 140
#> 3 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1985 AL coxbo01 104 140
#> 4 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1991 NL coxbo01 96 120
#> 5 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1992 NL coxbo01 29 120
#> 6 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1993 NL coxbo01 27 140
#> 7 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1994 NL coxbo01 3 140
#> 8 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1995 NL coxbo01 20 140
#> 9 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1996 NL coxbo01 24 140
#> 10 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1997 NL coxbo01 6 140
#> 11 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1998 NL coxbo01 17 160
#> 12 BBWAA Manager of the Year 1999 NL coxbo01 98 160
#> 13 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2000 NL coxbo01 41 160
#> 14 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2001 NL coxbo01 12 160
#> 15 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2002 NL coxbo01 93 160
#> 16 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2003 NL coxbo01 56 160
#> 17 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2004 NL coxbo01 140 160
#> 18 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2005 NL coxbo01 152 160
#> 19 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2009 NL coxbo01 15 160
#> 20 BBWAA Manager of the Year 2010 NL coxbo01 28 160
#> votesFirst
#> 1 4
#> 2 0
#> 3 16
#> 4 13
#> 5 1
#> 6 0
#> 7 0
#> 8 1
#> 9 3
#> 10 0
#> 11 0
#> 12 10
#> 13 1
#> 14 2
#> 15 9
#> 16 6
#> 17 22
#> 18 28
#> 19 0
#> 20 1