ISL Results

There have been two ISL meets thus far, both in the “Budapest Bubble”. Results are available at SwimSwam.

match_1 <- "https://cdn.swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Results_Book_Match_1_V2.pdf"
match_2 <- "https://cdn.swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Results_Book_Full_M2-1.pdf"

ISL_matches <- c(match_1, match_2)

swim_parse_ISL works exactly the same way as our old friend swim_parse. It takes the output of read_results and returns a dataframe. It’s dead simple.

match_1 %>% 
  read_results() %>% 
  swim_parse_ISL()

We do have a list of match results though, so rather than doing them individually let’s do them all at once with some tidyverse magic. All we have to do is pass our list of ISL match results to read_results and then to swim_parse_ISL. Since we have a list we’ll use map to do the passing, applying read_results and swim_parse_ISL to each element, that is, each match result in the list of matches. Then we’ll name the resulting list elements, which are two dataframes, by match number (1 and 2) with setNames and stick them together with bind_rows.

ISL_results <-
  map(ISL_matches , read_results) %>% # map SwimmeR::read_results over the list of links
  map(swim_parse_ISL) %>% # now it's swim_parse_ILS's turn
  setNames(c(1, 2)) %>%  # name the dataframes 1 and 2 respectively
  bind_rows(.id = "Match") %>% # stick the dataframes together, with a new column called "Match" which will contain the relevant dataframe name, either 1 or 2
  mutate(Match = as.numeric(Match))

ISL Dataframe - Now What?

Now we have one big dataframe of ISL results, almost exactly like we do when we use swim_parse.

head(ISL_results) %>% 
  flextable_style()

Those of you who are close readers of SwimmeR documentation (so all of you, right?) know that Lilly King is a hero around these parts. Let’s see how she’s doing in the ISL.

ISL_results %>% 
  filter(Name == "KING Lilly") %>% # only want Lilly's results
  flextable_style()

So Lilly swam 6 races and won all of them. That sounds like her. Lilly only swam in the first match though. Let’s look at the women’s breaststrokes in both matches. We’ll exclude the skins matches because in match 2 the skins races weren’t breaststroke. Probably because none of the teams in that match had Lilly King.

First we’ll filter out events that aren’t women’s breaststroke. Then we’ll create a new column with times in seconds format (total seconds) rather than minutes:seconds.hundreths using the sec_format function from SwimmeR. Next we’ll group_by event, arrange the entries in order of time, change the places with mutate to reflect our new ordering and finally, check out the results.

ISL_results %>% 
  filter(str_detect(Event, "Women's \\d{2,3}m Breaststroke$") == TRUE) %>% # only want women's breaststroke events
  mutate(Time_sec = sec_format(Time)) %>% # convert times to second format
  group_by(Event) %>% 
  arrange(Time_sec) %>% # order entries by increasing time 
  mutate(Place = rank(Time_sec)) %>% # recode place to new order, based on time
  select(-Time_sec, Lane, Points) %>% # don't need these columns
  slice(1:3) %>% # top three finishers in each event
  flextable_style()

Turns out Lilly King is dominant in both matches. Makes sense. SwimmeR v0.5.1 is working well.

In Closing

So that’s how you can use SwimmeR v0.5.1 to get ISL results into R. Not to bad right? Now we’ll just wait and see what other mischief the results people over at ISL can come up next week. If and when they strike again I’ll update SwimmeR appropriately. If you find an issue please leave a comment, or post it on github. That’s it until next time here at Swimming + Data Science.