hoopR
hoopR is an R package for
working with men’s basketball data.
The package has functions to access live play by play and box score
data from ESPN with shot locations when available. As of version 1.3.0,
hoopR is also a full NBA
Stats API wrapper with 127 functions added in this release.
It is additionally a scraping and aggregating interface for Ken Pomeroy’s men’s college basketball statistics website, kenpom.com. It provides users with an active subscription the capability to scrape the website tables and analyze the data for themselves.
As of version 3.1.0, the package exports 600+ functions spanning the NBA
Stats API (nba_*), ESPN (espn_nba_* / espn_mbb_*), KenPom
(kp_*), CollegeBasketballData (cbbd_*), Basketball-Reference
(bref_*), Bart Torvik (torvik_*), RealGM (realgm_*), Fox Sports
(fox_*), NCAA (ncaa_mbb_*), and NBA G-League (nbagl_*), plus
load_nba_*() / load_mbb_*() / load_ncaa_mbb_*() bulk-data loaders
backed by the sportsdataverse-data release repos.
Installation
You can install the CRAN version of
hoopR with:
install.packages("hoopR")You can install the released version of
hoopR from
GitHub with:
# You can install using the pak package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pak', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pak')
}
pak::pak("sportsdataverse/hoopR")Quick Start
NBA full play-by-play seasons (2002-2026) ~ 1-2 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
nba_pbp <- hoopR::load_nba_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()## 4.05 sec elapsed
## 642472 rows of NBA play-by-play data from 1325 games.Men’s college basketball full play-by-play seasons (2006-2026) ~ 2-3 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
mbb_pbp <- hoopR::load_mbb_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()## 12.98 sec elapsed
## 2915731 rows of men's college basketball play-by-play data from 6275 games.Documentation
For more information on the package and function reference, please see
the hoopR documentation
website.
Breaking Changes
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Our Authors
- Saiem Gilani (@saiemgilani)
Our Contributors (they’re awesome)
Jason Lee (@theFirmAISports)
Billy Fryer (@BillyFryer42)
Ross Drucker (@rossdrucker9)
Vladislav Shufinskiy (@vshufinskiy)
Citations
To cite the hoopR R package
in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{gilani_2021_hoopR,
author = {Gilani, Saiem},
title = {hoopR: The SportsDataverse's R Package for Men's Basketball Data.},
url = {https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org},
year = {2021}
}