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Data Understanding
The data which were utilized for this report were generated from The Federation Internationale de Football Association. The data were compiled by the datasetsICR package list in R.
The dataset was comprised of 18207 observations and 80 variables.
The main categorical variable that was used in this analysis to determine its relationship with wage and penalties was the player’s preferred foot to kick with. The following table indicates that most players used their right foot during the game and very few players just did not have a preference.
Charts
To understand the relationship between the wage a player received, the amount of penalties they acquired and their preferred foot, the following chart was made.
The data indicated that they were a clear positive, though not linear relationship between the wage a player earned and the amount of penalties they were given. However for most of the data points it seems that regardless of the amount of penalties that a player had in their careers was not proportional to their wages. Likewise, player foot preference did not seem to have much of an effect, considering how much more right foot preference there was. The summary statistics for the variables tell the same story, while the median wage for professional players is $3 million, the median player had 49 penalties. In fact the data highlights this fact with there being near 2.9215434 more average earners.
Compressing the data points utilizing the mean wage and penalty values indicate that for most of these cases a players earnings, penalties and their preferred foot were not perfectly proportional. Further compression of only the highest earners and players with the most penalties also indicates that players have very similar incomes regardless of penalties and foot preference.
Big Clubs
Club Wage Preferred.Foot Penalties
Manchester United :33 Min. : 8.0 Length:33 Min. :16.00
: 0 1st Qu.: 39.0 Class :character 1st Qu.:49.00
SSV Jahn Regensburg : 0 Median :110.0 Mode :character Median :59.00
1. FC Heidenheim 1846: 0 Mean :102.8 Mean :57.85
1. FC Koln : 0 3rd Qu.:140.0 3rd Qu.:66.00
1. FC Kaiserslautern : 0 Max. :260.0 Max. :81.00
(Other) : 0 
The data also indicated that bigger clubs like Manchester United had higher wages for their players than the average amount in the league. The median wage these players received is $110 million and have more penalties than the league average.