Lahman Baseball Datasets

This package consists of the Lahman Baseball Database with the intent of consuming it from Python code via the Pandas library. The package was inspired from the book Analyzing Baseball Data with R. Obviously R is not Python so this package allows one to do the analyses covered in the book (as well as you own) using Python.

Installation

Install using pip:

pip install tq-lahman-datasets

Usage

Download and load the Pandas DataFrames into memory:

from teqniqly.lahman_datasets import LahmanDatasets

ld = LahmanDatasets()
ld.load()

Get the dataframe names. Each dataframe corresponds to a CSV file in the Lahman database:

df_names = ld.dataframe_names

Load datasets by providing the dataset name as an indexer to the LahmanDatasets instance:

batting_df = ld["Batting"]

The datasets are Pandas DataFrames so work with them as you would with other DataFrames.