Hyphenated last names in US pro sports

Node scripts to gather and clean data for an article on the rise of double-barrelled last names in US professional sports.

Setup

Dependencies

• node
• cheerio
• d3
• request
• fs
• lodash

Install

Clone the repo and run npm i

Reproduce

WNBA

npm run wnba-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized WNBA players from Basketball Reference and saves into the output/wnba folder as names-{letter}.html

npm run wnba-get-names-list

Compiles and formats all WNBA player names and saves into output/wnba as names.csv

NBA

npm run nba-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized NBA players from Basketball Reference and saves into the output/nba folder as names-{letter}.html

npm run nba-get-names-list

Compiles and formats all NBA player names and saves into output/nba as names.csv

NFL

npm run nfl-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized NFL players from Football Reference and saves into the output/nfl folder as names-{letter}.html

npm run nfl-get-names-list

Compiles and formats all NFL player names and saves into output/nfl as names.csv

MLB

npm run mlb-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized MLB players from Baseball Reference and saves into the output/mlb folder as names-{letter}.html

npm run mlb-get-names-list

Compiles and formats all MLB player names and saves into output/mlb as names.csv

NHL

npm run nhl-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized NHL players from Hockey Reference and saves into the output/nhl folder as names-{letter}.html

npm run nhl-get-names-list

Compiles and formats all NHL player names and saves into output/nhl as names.csv

MLS

npm run mls-get-names-list

Compiles previously downloaded MLS player names from output/mls/csvs and saves into output/nwsl as names-no-years.csv

npm run mls-format-years

Formats all MLS player names and saves into output/mls as names.csv

NWSL

npm run nwsl-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized NWSL players from NWSL and saves into the output/nhl folder as season-{season}.html

npm run nwsl-get-names-list

Compiles all NWSL player names and saves into output/nwsl as names-no-years.csv

npm run nwls-format-years

Formats all NWSL player names and saves into output/nwsl as names.csv

Congress

npm run congress-get-names-html

Pulls down html pages of alphabetized US congressional members from congress.gov and saves into the output/congress folder as names-{page}.html

npm run congress-get-names-list

Compiles and formats all congressional names and saves into output/congress as names.csv

Combining

npm run combine-all-names

Compiles names from all leagues and saves into output as:

• allCombinedNames.csv which includes names from Congress
• hyphensCombinedNames.csv which includes only last names with hyphens
• sportsCombinedNames.csv which includes all sports names without Congress

Notes

Korean names, where the last name appears before the first name, were later manually untagged as hyphenated names. Players were grouped into decades by the season in which they played in their first professional game. When seasons spanned multiple years (i.e. 1979-1980), the last year was used as the decade. The reasons for hyphenation were manually researched and added into sportsCombinedNames_withReasons.csv.