This folder contains all of the data used in The Pudding article One-Hit Wonders in Sports published in April 2018.
Below you'll find metadata for each file.
- What is this?: Data for 8 sport leagues in the last 30 years of players who finished in the top 20 in their respective sport at the end of a season.
- Source(s): Data was collected from the following sources; NBA and WNBA: basketball-reference.com, MLB: FanGraphs, PGA: pgatour.com, LPGA: lpga.com, NHL: hockey-reference.com, ATP: github.com/serve-and-volley, WTA: github.com/JeffSackmann.
- Last Modified: April 26, 2018
- Contact Information: Russell Goldenberg
- Spatial Applicability: United States
- Temporal Applicability: 1988 - 2017
- Variables (Columns):
| Header | Description | Data Type |
|---|---|---|
id |
unique player id | text |
name |
full player name | text |
year |
year of season (or last year if spanning two) | number |
year_index |
zero-based year of career | number |
total_players |
number of documented players that year | number |
peak_year_index |
the index of the year the player peaked | number |
rank |
competition rank of the player according to stat_val | number |
dnp |
if they did not play | boolean |
sport_name |
name of sport | text |
league |
name of league | text |
stat_prop |
name of stat used to rank | text |
stat_val |
value of stat used to rank | number |
played_prop |
name of units (eg. games) played property in data | text |
played_val |
number of units (eg. games) played | number |
played_2_prop |
name of units (eg. games) played property in data (secondary for baseball) | text |
played_2_val |
number of units (eg. games) played (secondary) | number |
team |
team name | text |
pos |
position | text |