Pybaseball
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pybaseball
2.0.0 Release: 18 August, 2020
Recent Updates
pybaseballis now listed on the PyPI aspybaseball2. The package is still used asimport pybaseball, but install it withpip install pybaseball2.- New functionality:
- Plot spray charts on stadium (#9, thanks to @andersonfrailey)
- Baseball Reference game logs (#4, thanks to @reddigari)
- More functions for Chadwick Bureau data (#8, thanks to @valdezt)
- Exposes Chadwick Bureau lookup table (#7)
- Top Prospects (#5, thanks to @TylerLiu42)
- Full Season Statcast data (#2, @TylerLiu42)
- Amateur Draft results (#11, @TylerLiu42)
- Bugfixes, with thanks to @bgunn34 and @TAThor
pybaseball is a Python package for baseball data analysis. This package scrapes Baseball Reference, Baseball Savant, and FanGraphs so you don't have to. The package retrieves statcast data, pitching stats, batting stats, division standings/team records, awards data, and more. Data is available at the individual pitch level, as well as aggregated at the season level and over custom time periods. See the docs for a comprehensive list of data acquisition functions.
Installation
Pybaseball can be installed via pip:
pip install pybaseball2
or from the repo (which may at times be more up to date):
git clone https://github.com/schorrm/pybaseball
cd pybaseball
pip install -e .
Statcast: Pull advanced metrics from Major League Baseball's Statcast system
Statcast data include pitch-level features such as Perceived Velocity (PV), Spin Rate (SR), Exit Velocity (EV), pitch X, Y, and Z coordinates, and more. The function statcast(start_dt, end_dt) pulls this data from baseballsavant.com.
>>> from pybaseball import statcast
>>> data = statcast(start_dt='2017-06-24', end_dt='2017-06-27')
>>> data.head(2)
index pitch_type game_date release_speed release_pos_x release_pos_z
0 314 CU 2017-06-27 79.7 -1.3441 5.4075
1 332 FF 2017-06-27 98.1 -1.3547 5.4196
player_name batter pitcher events ... release_pos_y
0 Matt Bush 608070.0 456713.0 field_out ... 54.8585
1 Matt Bush 429665.0 456713.0 field_out ... 54.3470
estimated_ba_using_speedangle estimated_woba_using_speedangle woba_value
0 0.100 0.137 0.0
1 0.269 0.258 0.0
woba_denom babip_value iso_value launch_speed_angle at_bat_number pitch_number
0 1.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 64.0 1.0
1 1.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 63.0 3.0
[2 rows x 79 columns]
If start_dt and end_dt are supplied, it will return all statcast data between those two dates. If not, it will return yesterday's data. The optional argument verbose will control whether the library updates you on its progress while it pulls the data.
For a player-specific statcast query, pull pitching or batting data using the statcast_pitcher and statcast_batter functions. These take the same start_dt and end_dt arguments as the statcast function, as well as a player_id argument. This ID comes from MLB Advanced Media, and can be obtained using the function playerid_lookup. A complete example:
>>> # Find Clayton Kershaw's player id
>>> from pybaseball import playerid_lookup
>>> from pybaseball import statcast_pitcher
>>> playerid_lookup('kershaw', 'clayton')
Gathering player lookup table. This may take a moment.
name_last name_first key_mlbam key_retro key_bbref key_fangraphs
0 kershaw clayton 477132 kersc001 kershcl01 2036
mlb_played_first mlb_played_last
0 2008.0 2017.0
>>> # His MLBAM ID is 477132, so we feed that as the player_id argument to the following function
>>> kershaw_stats = statcast_pitcher('2017-06-01', '2017-07-01', 477132)
>>> kershaw_stats.head(2)
pitch_type game_date release_speed release_pos_x release_pos_z
0 SL 2017-06-29 87.2 1.0865 6.4034
1 SL 2017-06-29 86.9 1.0195 6.4324
player_name batter pitcher events description
0 Clayton Kershaw 458913 477132 strikeout swinging_strike_blocked
1 Clayton Kershaw 458913 477132 null ball
... release_pos_y estimated_ba_using_speedangle
0 ... 54.5463 0.0
1 ... 54.7625 0.0
estimated_woba_using_speedangle woba_value woba_denom babip_value
0 0.0 0.00 1 0
1 0.0 null null null
iso_value launch_speed_angle at_bat_number pitch_number
0 0 null 57 6
1 null null 57 5
[2 rows x 78 columns]
Pitching Stats: pitching stats for players across multiple seasons, single seasons, or during a specified time period
This library contains two main functions for obtaining pitching data. For league-wide season-level pitching data, use the function pitching_stats(start_season, end_season). This will return one row per player per season, and provide all metrics made available by FanGraphs.
The second is pitching_stats_range(start_dt, end_dt). This allows you to obtain pitching data over a specific time interval, allowing you to get more granular than the FanGraphs function (for example, to see which pitcher had the strongest month of May). This query pulls data from Baseball Reference. Note that all dates should be in YYYY-MM-DD format.
If you prefer Baseball Reference to FanGraphs, there is a third option called pitching_stats_bref(season). This works the same as pitching_stats, but retrieves its data from Baseball Reference instead. This is typically not recommended, however, because the Baseball Reference query currently can only retrieve one season's worth of data per request.
>>> from pybaseball import pitching_stats
>>> data = pitching_stats(2012, 2016)
>>> data.head()
Season Name Team Age W L ERA WAR G GS
336 2015.0 Clayton Kershaw Dodgers 27.0 16.0 7.0 2.13 8.6 33.0 33.0
236 2014.0 Clayton Kershaw Dodgers 26.0 21.0 3.0 1.77 7.6 27.0 27.0
472 2014.0 Corey Kluber Indians 28.0 18.0 9.0 2.44 7.4 34.0 34.0
235 2015.0 Jake Arrieta Cubs 29.0 22.0 6.0 1.77 7.3 33.0 33.0
256 2013.0 Clayton Kershaw Dodgers 25.0 16.0 9.0 1.83 7.1 33.0 33.0
... wSL/C (pi) wXX/C (pi) O-Swing% (pi) Z-Swing% (pi)
336 ... 1.76 22.85 0.364 0.665
236 ... 2.62 NaN 0.371 0.670
472 ... 3.92 NaN 0.336 0.598
235 ... 2.42 NaN 0.329 0.618
256 ... 0.74 NaN 0.339 0.635
Swing% (pi) O-Contact% (pi) Z-Contact% (pi) Contact% (pi) Zone% (pi)
336 0.511 0.478 0.811 0.689 0.487
236 0.525 0.536 0.831 0.730 0.515
472 0.468 0.485 0.886 0.744 0.505
235 0.468 0.595 0.856 0.762 0.483
256 0.484 0.563 0.873 0.763 0.492
Pace (pi)
336 23.4
236 23.7
472 24.6
235 23.3
256 23.4
[5 rows x 299 columns]
Batting Stats: hitting stats for players within seasons or during a specified time period
Batting stats are obtained similar to pitching stats. The function call for getting a season-level stats is batting_stats(start_season, end_season), and for a particular time range it is batting_stats_range(start_dt, end_dt). The Baseball Reference equivalent for season-level data is batting_stats_bref(season).
>>> from pybaseball import batting_stats_range
>>> data = batting_stats_range('2017-05-01', '2017-05-08')
>>> data.head()
Name Age #days Lev Tm G PA AB R H ... HBP
1 Jose Abreu 30 69 MLB-AL Chicago 7 31 30 5 9 ... 0
2 Lane Adams 27 69 MLB-NL Atlanta 6 6 6 0 2 ... 0
3 Matt Adams 28 68 MLB-NL St. Louis 6 9 9 2 4 ... 0
4 Jim Adduci 32 69 MLB-AL Detroit 6 24 21 3 5 ... 0
5 Tim Adleman 29 72 MLB-NL Cincinnati 1 2 2 0 0 ... 0
SH SF GDP SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS
1 0 0 1 0 0 0.300 0.323 0.667 0.989
2 0 0 1 1 0 0.333 0.333 0.333 0.667
3 0 0 0 0 0 0.444 0.444 0.778 1.222
4 0 0 0 0 0 0.238 0.333 0.381 0.714
5 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
[5 rows x 27 columns]
Game-by-Game Results and Schedule
The schedule_and_record function returns a team's game-by-game results for a given season, including game date, home and away teams, end result (W/L/Tie), score, winning/losing/saving pitchers, attendance, and division standing at that date. The function's only two arguments are season and team, where team is the team's abbreviation (i.e. NYY for New York Yankees, SEA for Seattle Mariners). If the season argument is set to the current season, the query returns results for past games and the schedule for those that have not occurred yet.
# Example: Let's take a look at the individual-game results of the 1927 Yankees
>>> from pybaseball import schedule_and_record
>>> data = schedule_and_record(1927, 'NYY')
>>> data.head()
