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| 1 | +This page is taken from[The Pudding](https://github.com/the-pudding/data/blob/master/one-hit-wonders/README.md) |
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| 3 | +This contains all of the data used in The Pudding article[One-Hit Wonders in Sports](https://pudding.cool/2018/04/one-hit-onders/) published in April 2018. |
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| 5 | +Below you'll find metadata for each file. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +##data.csv |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +***What is this?**: Data for 8 sport leagues in the last 30 years of players who finished in the top 20 in their respective sport at the end of a season. |
| 10 | +***Source(s)**: Data was collected from the following sources; NBA and WNBA: basketball-reference.com, MLB: FanGraphs, PGA: pgatour.com, LPGA: lpga.com, NHL: hockey-reference.com, ATP: github.com/serve-and-volley, WTA: github.com/JeffSackmann. |
| 11 | +***Last Modified**: April 26, 2018 |
| 12 | +***Contact Information**:[Russell Goldenberg](mailto:russell@polygraph.cool) |
| 13 | +***Spatial Applicability**: United States |
| 14 | +***Temporal Applicability**: 1988 - 2017 |
| 15 | +***Variables (Columns)**: |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +| Header| Description| Data Type| |
| 18 | +| -----------------| --------------------------------------------------------------------------| ---------| |
| 19 | +|`id`| unique player id| text| |
| 20 | +|`name`| full player name| text| |
| 21 | +|`year`| year of season (or last year if spanning two)| number| |
| 22 | +|`year_index`| zero-based year of career| number| |
| 23 | +|`total_players`| number of documented players that year| number| |
| 24 | +|`peak_year_index`| the index of the year the player peaked| number| |
| 25 | +|`rank`| competition rank of the player according to stat_val| number| |
| 26 | +|`dnp`| if they did not play| boolean| |
| 27 | +|`sport_name`| name of sport| text| |
| 28 | +|`league`| name of league| text| |
| 29 | +|`stat_prop`| name of stat used to rank| text| |
| 30 | +|`stat_val`| value of stat used to rank| number| |
| 31 | +|`played_prop`| name of units (eg. games) played property in data| text| |
| 32 | +|`played_val`| number of units (eg. games) played| number| |
| 33 | +|`played_2_prop`| name of units (eg. games) played property in data (secondary for baseball)| text| |
| 34 | +|`played_2_val`| number of units (eg. games) played (secondary)| number| |
| 35 | +|`team`| team name| text| |
| 36 | +|`pos`| position| text| |