teamcolors

An R package providing color palettes for pro sports teams. The palattes are provided by Jim Neilsen's Team Colors website.

Install

devtools::install_github("beanumber/teamcolors")

Load

library(teamcolors)
head(teamcolors)

##                   name league primary secondary tertiary quaternary
## 1      AFC Bournemouth    epl #e62333   #000000     <NA>       <NA>
## 2        Anaheim Ducks    nhl #010101   #a2aaad  #fc4c02    #85714d
## 3    Arizona Cardinals    nfl #97233f   #000000  #ffb612    #a5acaf
## 4      Arizona Coyotes    nhl #010101   #862633  #ddcba4       <NA>
## 5 Arizona Diamondbacks    mlb #a71930   #000000  #e3d4ad       <NA>
## 6              Arsenal    epl #ef0107   #023474  #9c824a       <NA>

Plot

library(Lahman)
library(tidyverse)
pythag <- Teams %>%
  filter(yearID == 2016) %>%
  select(name, teamID, yearID, W, L, R, RA) %>%
  mutate(wpct = W / (W + L), exp_wpct = 1 / (1 + (RA/R)^2)) %>%
  left_join(teamcolors, by = "name")
with(pythag, plot(wpct, exp_wpct, bg = primary, col = secondary, pch = 21, cex = 3))

ggplot(pythag, aes(x = wpct, y = exp_wpct, color = name, fill = name)) + 
  geom_abline(slope = 1, intercept = 0, linetype = 3) + 
  geom_point(shape = 21, size = 3) + 
  scale_fill_manual(values = pythag$primary, guide = FALSE) + 
  scale_color_manual(values = pythag$secondary, guide = FALSE) + 
  ggrepel::geom_text_repel(aes(label = teamID)) + 
  scale_x_continuous("Winning Percentage", limits = c(0.3, 0.7)) + 
  scale_y_continuous("Expected Winning Percentage", limits = c(0.3, 0.7)) + 
  theme_light() +
  labs(title = "Real and Pythagorean winning % by team",
       subtitle = paste(pythag$yearID[1], "MLB Season", sep = " "),
       caption = "Source: the Lahman baseball database. Using teamcolors R pckg") +
  coord_equal()

Key

teams <- teamcolors %>%
  filter(league %in% c("mlb", "nba", "nfl", "nhl"))
ggplot(teams, aes(x = name, color = name, fill = name)) + 
  geom_bar() +
  facet_wrap(~toupper(league), scales = "free_y") +
  coord_flip() + 
  scale_x_discrete(NULL) + 
  scale_y_continuous(NULL) + 
  scale_fill_manual(values = teams$primary) + 
  scale_color_manual(values = teams$secondary) + 
  guides(color = FALSE, fill = FALSE) + 
  theme(axis.text.x = element_blank(), 
        axis.ticks.x = element_blank())

References

For more examples see:

• Lopez, M.J., Matthews, G.J., Baumer, B.S., "How often does the best team win? A unified approach to understanding randomness in North American sport," (https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05976)