Major League Baseball Offensive Production is Related to Salary and Position

author: Joseph Oberlander date: March 13, 2017

Introduction

• Welcome
• This is an analysis of player salary and position on offensive production from the 2008 Major League Baseball Season.
• The data in this analysis were fetched on March 6, 2017 from this URL: http://www.exploredata.net/Downloads/Baseball-Data-Set

The 2008 Season Offensive Production

library(plotly)

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ostat <- read.csv("MLB2008.csv")
plot_ly(ostat, x = ostat$SALARY, y = ostat$AVG, z = ostat$POS, type = "scatter3d", mode = "markers", color = ostat$POS) %>%
layout(scene = list(
           xaxis = list(title = "Salary ($)"), 
           yaxis = list(title = "Batting Average"), 
           zaxis = list(title = "Position")))

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