This project is no longer in the works, as it turns out that crawling sports-reference pages is against their TOS and will result in IP bans. As a result I can't recommend that anybody try to actually use this.
This repository contains five (so far) scripts. When sourced in combination (getfirstgoals.R must be sourced last),
a dataframe will be produced that contains each player that scored their first career goal in the seasons since 2009. This is being generated as an R Studio project, hence the .Rproj file and packrat directory.
At this point, no code is included for generating plots, though I intend to write a Shiny implementation of this project.
This project was initially done before I was introduced to github, hence the lack of version control early on. Newer versions of code will adhere to common style guide recommendations (variables will be named more properly).