# Or install the development version from GitHub # devtools::install_github("jfjelstul/fjelstul")
For data scientists, sports analysts, and football enthusiasts, the FIFA World Cup represents a goldmine of statistical potential. However, historical football data is often scattered across disparate websites, locked in unstructured formats, or riddled with inconsistencies. fjelstul world cup database r package worldcup
Once installed, simply loading the library makes the datasets available immediately. # Or install the development version from GitHub
The database is extensive, spanning nearly a century of soccer history: All 22 tournaments from 1930 to 2022 . Women’s World Cup: All 8 tournaments from 1991 to 2019 . Key Features and Datasets and football enthusiasts
ggplot(knockout_goals, aes(x = total_goals)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 1, fill = "forestgreen") + labs(title = "Distribution of Total Goals in Knockout Matches")