2023-24 PWHL - Visualizing the Regular Season
Module
Please note that these material have not yet completed the required pedagogical and industry peer-reviews to become a published module on the SCORE Network. However, instructors are still welcome to use these materials if they are so inclined.
Welcome Video
Introduction
For this activity, you will be exploring the goals scored by the different positions and age groups in the Professional Woman’s Hockey League PWHL during the 2023-24 regular season.
Specifically, you will examine visualizations provided, create your own visualizations, and create new variables in the data set.
Visualizing these statistics is useful for several reasons. Displaying graphics provides the reader with an easy-to-understand idea of how scoring can differ among different age groups and positions. Also, allowing the student to work with the data and create new variables allows them to deepen their understanding of the newly formed league. It can identify which age groups and positions are most likely to score the most goals in a given season. Although not the main goal of the data set, analyses like these can inform strategies to either prevent or score goals, highlight an ideal age range, and inspire teams to maximize the number of goals from each position.
Data
The data set contains 147 rows and 16 columns. Each row represents a player who competed during the 2023-24 PWHL regular season.
Variable Descriptions
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| Rk | League ranking for number of total points |
| Name | First and last name of the player |
| Age | Age in years of the player |
| Pos | Position of the player, either Goalie (G), Defense (D) or Forward (F) |
| GP | Number of games played by the player |
| G | Number of goals by the player |
| A | Number of assists by the player |
| P | Number of points by the player (Goals + Assists) |
| PIM | Penalty minutes accumulated by the player |
| Plus_Minus | Plus/Minus rating for the player |
| PPG | Points per game for the player |
| SHG | Number of short-handed goals for the player |
| GWG | Number of game winning goals for the player |
| G_Per_GP | Number of goals per games played |
| A_Per_GP | Number of assists per games played |
| P_Per_GP | Number of points per games played |
Data Source
Materials
We provide an both an editable Microsoft Word handout and Posit Quarto (.qmd) file along with their keys. The Quarto file is designed for instructors that have students use R directly in the classroom. The Word document is for instructors whose students will not be directly interacting with in R/R-Studio (e.g., in a by-hand assessment).
Word version: Class handout: Word Class handout - with key: Word
Quarto version: Class handout: Quarto Class handout - with key: Quarto