UsingR: nba.draft – R documentation

Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!

nba.draft

NBA draft lottery odds for 2002

Description

The NBA draft in 2002 has a lottery

Usage

data(nba.draft)

Format

A data frame with 13 observations on the following 2 variables.

Team: Team name
Record: The team won-loss record
Balls: The number of balls (of 1000) that this team has in the lottery selection

Details

The NBA draft has a lottery to determing the top 13 placings. The odds in the lottery are determined by the won-loss record of the team, with poorer records having better odds of winning.

Source

Data is taken from http://www.nba.com/news/draft_ties_020424.html.

Examples

data(nba.draft)
top.pick = sample(row.names(nba.draft),1,prob = nba.draft$Balls)

UsingR

Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

v2.0-6

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

John Verzani <verzani@math.csi.cuny.edu>

Initial release