MLB Team Pitching Statistics (2024)

This dataset is from baseball-reference.com and summarizes each teams pitching stats from the 2024 season. This will include stats such as ERA, Strikeouts, Innings Pitched, etc.

Motivation

This dataset comes from Baseball Reference and contains MLB team pitching stats from 2024. This dataset will be used to find key statistics and about which teams did best during that season. Through this dataset, students can learn about the Pandas library and how it is useful for filtering data.

Data

Each row represents a team in the MLB. There are 32 rows (Including a total and league average row), meaning only 30 of those rows represent an individual team. There is no missingness in the data.

mlb_team_pitching_2024.csv

Variable	Description
Tm	Team Name
‘#P’	Number of Pitchers Used
PAge	Pitchers’ average age. Weighted by innings pitched
RA/G	Runs Allowed per Game
W	Wins
L	Losses
W-L%	Win-Loss Percentage
ERA	Earned Run Average
G	Games Played
GS	Games Started
GF	Games Finished
CG	Complete Games
tSho	Team Shutouts (Total)
cSho	Combined Shutouts
SV	Saves
IP	Innings Pitched
H	Hits Allowed
R	Runs Allowed
ER	Earned Runs
HR	Home Runs Allowed
BB	Bases on Balls (Walks)
IBB	Intentional Walks
SO	Strikeouts
HBP	Hit By Pitch
BK	Balks
WP	Wild Pitches
BF	Batters Faced
ERA+	ERA Adjusted for Ballpark and League (100 = average)
FIP	Fielding Independent Pitching
WHIP	Walks + Hits per Inning Pitched
H9	Hits Allowed per 9 Innings
HR9	Home Runs Allowed per 9 Innings
BB9	Walks per 9 Innings
SO9	Strikeouts per 9 Innings
SO/W	Strikeout-to-Walk Ratio
LOB	Runners Left On Base

Questions

This dataset was used to make a Pandas library learning module in Python and students are asked about how to import data, how to filter the data, how to drop the data and how to calculate key statistics from the data frame.

References

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2024.shtml#all_teams_standard_pitching