Produce a Chart of Individual Overall Season Leaders

Creates a ggplot2 lollipop chart (bar chart alternative) object. Displays the overall individual leaders of a given player statistic. Also provides the player's team.

Usage

overallLeaders(
  var,
  n_leaders = 10,
  games = "all",
  players = "goalies",
  gender = "women",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

var: summary statistic to plot
n_leaders: number of leaders to plot (default is 10)
games: graphing 'all' (default), 'conference', or 'nonconference' games. Currently no support for 'nonconference' games
players: type of players stats to graph, 'goalies' (default) or 'skaters'
gender: 'women' (default) or 'men'
verbose: TRUE (default) for intermediate data scraping output messages, FALSE for no additional output

Value

a ggplot2 lollipop chart object

Examples

overallLeaders(var="Saves", verbose=FALSE)

overallLeaders(var="Assists", n_leaders=15, games="conference", players="skaters", gender="men", verbose=FALSE)