[OC] Geburtsorte aktiver NHL-Spieler

Source: NHL API accessed in R

library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(dplyr)

url <- „https://search.d3.nhle.com/api/v1/search/player?culture=en-us&limit=50000&q=*&active=true“

players <- GET(url) |>
content(„text“, encoding = „UTF-8“) |>
fromJSON(flatten = TRUE) |>
as_tibble()

players <- players |>
transmute(
player_id = playerId,
name = name,
birth_city = birthCity,
birth_state = birthStateProvince,
birth_country = birthCountry
)

Tools: R (packages: dplyr, ggplot2, sf, usmap, tools, ggfx, grid, cowplot, scales, cowplot, showtext, sysfonts, colorspace)

Looks like a lot of the American metro areas are being undercounted because suburbs are treated as individual cities. The Twin Cities, for instance, has a large group of overlapping counts whereas it looks like Toronto’s metro is considered as a unit. Any clarity you can provide?

Wow, that bump over St. Louis is an outlier. I assumed part of it was the Tkachuks, but they were born in Scottsdale and raised in StL.

I feel like you can see the influence of the Solar Bears and the RDV Sportsplex in the large Orlando dot where there isn’t even an NHL team