R Dataset / Package Stat2Data / SampleFG
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the SampleFG data set which pertains to SampleFG. The SampleFG data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the SampleFG data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("SampleFG"). This will load the data into a variable called SampleFG. If R says the SampleFG data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the SampleFG R data set. The size of this file is about 2,049 bytes.
SampleFG
Description
A sample of 30 field goal attempts in the National Football League
Format
A dataset with 30 observations on the following 13 variables.
ID | ID number |
PlayerID | Code for player |
LastName | Last name |
FirstName | First name |
Year | Year |
Team | Abbreviation for team name |
Date | Code for date: mmdddyy |
FGAttempts | Field goals attempted by the kicker that game |
FGMade | Field goals made by the kicker that game |
Attempt | Which attempt during the game? |
Result | 1 =made the field goal or 0 =missed |
Yards | Number of yards for the field goal attempt |
Block | 1 =attempt blocked or 0 =not blocked |
Details
This is a subset of just 30 field goal attempts selected at random from the larger sample of attempts made by NFL kickers that is summarized in FGByDistance.
Source
We thank Sean Forman and Doug Drinen of Sports Reference LLC for providing us with the NFL field goal data set.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.