| Method |
Description |
Return Value |
highest_total_score |
Highest sum of the winning and losing teams' scores |
Integer |
lowest_total_score |
Lowest sum of the winning and losing teams' scores |
Integer |
biggest_blowout |
Highest difference between winner and loser |
Integer |
percentage_home_wins |
Percentage of games that a home team has won (rounded to the nearest 100th) |
Float |
percentage_visitor_wins |
Percentage of games that a visitor has won (rounded to the nearest 100th) |
Float |
percentage_ties |
Percentage of games that has resulted in a tie (rounded to the nearest 100th) |
Float |
count_of_games_by_season |
A hash with season names (e.g. 20122013) as keys and counts of games as values |
Hash |
average_goals_per_game |
Average number of goals scored in a game across all seasons including both home and away goals (rounded to the nearest 100th) |
Float |
average_goals_by_season |
Average number of goals scored in a game organized in a hash with season names (e.g. 20122013) as keys and a float representing the average number of goals in a game for that season as a key (rounded to the nearest 100th) |
Hash |
| Method |
Description |
Return Value |
count_of_teams |
Total number of teams in the data. |
Integer |
best_offense |
Name of the team with the highest average number of goals scored per game across all seasons. |
String |
worst_offense |
Name of the team with the lowest average number of goals scored per game across all seasons. |
String |
best_defense |
Name of the team with the lowest average number of goals allowed per game across all seasons. |
String |
worst_defense |
Name of the team with the highest average number of goals allowed per game across all seasons. |
String |
highest_scoring_visitor |
Name of the team with the highest average score per game across all seasons when they are away. |
String |
highest_scoring_home_team |
Name of the team with the highest average score per game across all seasons when they are home. |
String |
lowest_scoring_visitor |
Name of the team with the lowest average score per game across all seasons when they are a visitor. |
String |
lowest_scoring_home_team |
Name of the team with the lowest average score per game across all seasons when they are at home. |
String |
winningest_team |
Name of the team with the highest win percentage across all seasons. |
String |
best_fans |
Name of the team with biggest difference between home and away win percentages. |
String |
worst_fans |
List of names of all teams with better away records than home records. |
Array |
These methods each take a season id as an argument and return the values described below.
| Method |
Description |
Return Value |
biggest_bust |
Name of the team with the biggest decrease between regular season and postseason win percentage. |
String |
biggest_surprise |
Name of the team with the biggest increase between regular season and postseason win percentage. |
String |
winningest_coach |
Name of the Coach with the best win percentage for the season |
String |
worst_coach |
Name of the Coach with the worst win percentage for the season |
String |
most_accurate_team |
Name of the Team with the best ratio of shots to goals for the season |
String |
least_accurate_team |
Name of the Team with the worst ratio of shots to goals for the season |
String |
most_tackles |
Name of the Team with the most tackles in the season |
String |
fewest_tackles |
Name of the Team with the fewest tackles in the season |
String |
Each of the methods below take a team id as an argument. Using that team id, your instance of StatTracker will provide statistics for a specific team.
| Method |
Description |
Return Value |
team_info |
A hash with key/value pairs for the following attributes: team_id, franchise_id, team_name, abbreviation, and link |
Hash |
best_season |
Season with the highest win percentage for a team. |
String |
worst_season |
Season with the lowest win percentage for a team. |
String |
average_win_percentage |
Average win percentage of all games for a team. |
Float |
most_goals_scored |
Highest number of goals a particular team has scored in a single game. |
Integer |
fewest_goals_scored |
Lowest numer of goals a particular team has scored in a single game. |
Integer |
favorite_opponent |
Name of the opponent that has the lowest win percentage against the given team. |
String |
rival |
Name of the opponent that has the highest win percentage against the given team. |
String |
biggest_team_blowout |
Biggest difference between team goals and opponent goals for a win for the given team. |
Integer |
worst_loss |
Biggest difference between team goals and opponent goals for a loss for the given team. |
Integer |
head_to_head |
Record (as a hash - win/loss) against all opponents with the opponents' names as keys and the win percentage against that opponent as a value. |
Hash |
seasonal_summary |
For each season that the team has played, a hash that has two keys (:regular_season and :postseason), that each point to a hash with the following keys: :win_percentage, :total_goals_scored, :total_goals_against, :average_goals_scored, :average_goals_against. |
Hash |