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An R package providing color palettes for pro and amateur sports teams. The palettes are provided by Jim Neilsen’s Team Colors website and offered with only minimal alterations. NCAA colors come from teamcolorcodes.com, via the ncaahoopR package. Other sports include the Women’s National Basketball Association, National Women’s Soccer League, and the Canadian Football League.

Install

To install the CRAN version, use:

install.packages(teamcolors)

To install the development version from GitHub, use:

devtools::install_github("beanumber/teamcolors")

Load

library(teamcolors)
head(teamcolors)
## # A tibble: 6 × 11
##   name     league primary secondary tertiary quaternary division location mascot
##   <chr>    <chr>  <chr>   <chr>     <chr>    <chr>      <chr>    <chr>    <chr> 
## 1 A&M-Cor… ncaa   #0067C5 #007F3E   <NA>     <NA>       Southla… A&M-Cor… Chris…
## 2 AFC Bou… epl    #e62333 #000000   <NA>     <NA>       <NA>     AFC      Bourn…
## 3 Abilene… ncaa   #461D7C #FFFFFF   <NA>     <NA>       WAC      Abilene  Chris…
## 4 Air For… ncaa   #003087 #8A8D8F   #B1B3B3  #FFC72C    MWC      Air For… <NA>  
## 5 Akron    ncaa   #041E42 #A89968   <NA>     <NA>       MAC      Akron    <NA>  
## 6 Alabama  ncaa   #9E1B32 #828A8F   #FFFFFF  <NA>       SEC      Alabama  <NA>  
## # ℹ 2 more variables: sportslogos_name <chr>, logo <chr>

Show palettes

Sometimes you need to work with a named vector of colors. Other times you can use the built-in scale_color_teams() and scale_color_fill() functions.

league_pal("nba")
##          Atlanta Hawks         Boston Celtics          Brooklyn Nets 
##              "#e13a3e"              "#008348"              "#061922" 
##      Charlotte Hornets          Chicago Bulls    Cleveland Cavaliers 
##              "#1d1160"              "#ce1141"              "#860038" 
##       Dallas Mavericks         Denver Nuggets        Detroit Pistons 
##              "#007dc5"              "#4d90cd"              "#ed174c" 
##  Golden State Warriors        Houston Rockets         Indiana Pacers 
##              "#fdb927"              "#ce1141"              "#ffc633" 
##   Los Angeles Clippers     Los Angeles Lakers      Memphis Grizzlies 
##              "#ed174c"              "#fdb927"              "#0f586c" 
##             Miami Heat        Milwaukee Bucks Minnesota Timberwolves 
##              "#98002e"              "#00471b"              "#005083" 
##   New Orleans Pelicans        New York Knicks  Oklahoma City Thunder 
##              "#002b5c"              "#006bb6"              "#007dc3" 
##          Orlando Magic     Philadelphia 76ers           Phoenix Suns 
##              "#007dc5"              "#ed174c"              "#e56020" 
## Portland Trail Blazers       Sacramento Kings      San Antonio Spurs 
##              "#e03a3e"              "#724c9f"              "#bac3c9" 
##        Toronto Raptors              Utah Jazz     Washington Wizards 
##              "#ce1141"              "#002b5c"              "#002b5c"

Plot

In baseball, Pythagorean expectation relates expected winning percentage to runs allowed and runs scored. How well does it work?

library(Lahman)
library(tidyverse)
pythag <- Teams %>%
  filter(yearID == 2016) %>%
  select(name, teamID, yearID, W, L, R, RA) %>%
  mutate(
    wpct = W / (W + L), exp_wpct = 1 / (1 + (RA / R)^2),
    # note name discrepancy!
    name = ifelse(name == "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim", "Los Angeles Angels", name)
  )

ggplot2

ggplot(pythag, aes(x = wpct, y = exp_wpct, color = name, fill = name)) +
  geom_abline(slope = 1, intercept = 0, linetype = 3) +
  geom_point(shape = 21, size = 3) +
  scale_fill_teams(guide = FALSE) +
  scale_color_teams(2, guide = FALSE) +
  ggrepel::geom_text_repel(aes(label = teamID)) +
  scale_x_continuous("Winning Percentage", limits = c(0.3, 0.7)) +
  scale_y_continuous("Expected Winning Percentage", limits = c(0.3, 0.7)) +
  theme_light() +
  labs(
    title = "Real and Pythagorean winning % by team",
    subtitle = paste(first(pull(pythag, yearID)), "MLB Season", sep = " "),
    caption = "Source: Lahman baseball database. Using teamcolors R pkg"
  ) +
  coord_equal()
## Warning: The `guide` argument in `scale_*()` cannot be `FALSE`. This was deprecated in
## ggplot2 3.3.4.
## ℹ Please use "none" instead.
## This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
## Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
## generated.

## Warning: ggrepel: 3 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
## increasing max.overlaps

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Base R

pythag <- pythag %>%
  left_join(teamcolors, by = "name")
with(pythag, plot(wpct, exp_wpct, bg = primary, col = secondary, pch = 21, cex = 3))

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Key

You can see the color palettes using existing functionality from the scales package, but it won’t show the names of the teams.

scales::show_col(league_pal("mlb"), borders = league_pal("mlb", 2))

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So, instead, use show_team_col(). Note that this only shows color palettes for non-NCAA teams.

show_team_col()
## Warning: The `<scale>` argument of `guides()` cannot be `FALSE`. Use "none" instead as
## of ggplot2 3.3.4.
## ℹ The deprecated feature was likely used in the teamcolors package.
##   Please report the issue at <https://github.com/beanumber/teamcolors/issues>.
## This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
## Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
## generated.

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To view color palettes for college teams, use the show_ncaa_col() function.

show_ncaa_col()

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Logos

Links to team logos are provided by (http://www.sportslogos.net/).

teamcolors %>%
  filter(grepl("New Y", name)) %>%
  pull(logo) %>%
  knitr::include_graphics()

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Note that we don’t have any coverage for the EPL.

teamcolors %>%
  group_by(league) %>%
  summarize(
    num_teams = n(),
    num_logos = sum(!is.na(logo))
  )
## # A tibble: 10 × 3
##    league num_teams num_logos
##    <chr>      <int>     <int>
##  1 cfl            9         8
##  2 epl           20         0
##  3 mlb           30        30
##  4 mls           22        21
##  5 nba           30        30
##  6 ncaa         363       235
##  7 nfl           32        32
##  8 nhl           31        30
##  9 nwsl           9         7
## 10 wnba          12        12

References

For more examples see:

To cite this package in your work, see:

citation("teamcolors")

Notes