Clean Up Player Names For Merging.

Cleans up names of players for merging.

Usage

cleanUpNames(name)

Arguments

name

character vector of player names.

Value

Vector of cleaned player names.

Details

Cleans up names of NFL Football players, including making them all-caps, removing common suffixes, punctuation, spaces, etc. This is helpful for merging multiple datasets.

Examples

oldNames <- c("Peyton Manning","Tom Brady","Marvin Harrison Jr.")
cleanNames <- cleanUpNames(oldNames)
cleanNames
#> [1] "PEYTONMANNING"  "TOMBRADY"       "MARVINHARRISON"