% DASL file http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/Datafiles/eradat.html % % Great Pitchers % Reference: Branch Rickey, "Good-Bye to Some Old Baseball Ideas," Life Magazine, % August 2, 1954. % Authorization: free use % Description: Branch Rickey presents the leading baseball pitchers of the period 1920 to % 1950, ranked by earned run average (ERA). He also presents additional % statistics related to pitching performance (ERA). % Number of cases: 12 % Variable Names: % % HITS: hits per 100 at bats % CON: Control = 100(bases on balls+hit batsmen) / (hits+bases on balls+ % hit batsmen) % CLU: Clutch = 100(earned runs) / (hits+bases on balls+hit batsment) % SO: Strikeouts = 100(strikeouts) / (hits+bases on balls+hit batsmen) % ERA: Earned run average = earned runs per nine innings pitched % @RELATION relation @ATTRIBUTE 'PITCHER' {"B.WALTER","C.HUBBELL","D.DEAN","D.LEONARD","D.VANCE","F.FITZSIMMONS","G.ALEXANDER","L.GOMEZ","L.GROVE","P.DERRINGER","T.LYONS","W.JOHNSON"} @ATTRIBUTE 'HITS' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'CON' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'CLU' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'SO' numeric @ATTRIBUTE 'ERA' numeric @DATA 'C.HUBBELL',25.1,5.3,28.0,11.2,2.98 'D.DEAN',25.3,6.0,27.6,14.4,3.03 'L.GROVE',25.4,7.5,26.7,13.6,3.09 'G.ALEXANDER',27.3,3.8,28.5,6.4,3.09 'D.VANCE',25.4,7.6,28.6,16.8,3.22 'D.LEONARD',26.5,6.0,28.4,8.8,3.25 'B.WALTER',25.4,9.0,27.4,8.8,3.30 'W.JOHNSON',25.6,8.0,28.6,12.0,3.33 'L.GOMEZ',24.3,10.5,27.3,13.6,3.34 'P.DERRINGER',27.2,5.2,29.8,9.6,3.46 'F.FITZSIMMONS',27.2,6.7,29.8,6.4,3.54 'T.LYONS',27.5,6.6,30.1,6.4,3.67