do_scrape_days_acb

Obtain the game codes of any regular season day from any ACB season. 
These game codes will be used to define the target url from which collecting 
the shooting data of every game.

Collection of tools to work with European basketball data. Functions available are related to friendly
web scraping, data management and visualization. Data were obtained from <https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/euroleague/>,
<https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/> and <https://www.acb.com/>, following the instructions
of their respectives robots.txt files, when available. Box score data are available for the three leagues.
Play-by-play and spatial shooting data are also available for the Spanish league. Methods for analysis include a
population pyramid, 2D plots, circular plots of players' percentiles, plots of players' monthly/yearly stats,
team heatmaps, team shooting plots, team four factors plots, cross-tables with the results of regular season games,
maps of nationalities, combinations of lineups, possessions-related variables, timeouts,
performance by periods, personal fouls, offensive rebounds and different types of shooting charts.
Please see Vinue (2020) <doi:10.1089/big.2018.0124> and Vinue (2024) <doi:10.1089/big.2023.0177>.

Guillermo Vinue

BAwiR

Analysis of Basketball Data

do_scrape_days_acb function

<dl><dt>season</dt>
<dd>String with the starting year of the season. For example, "2024"
refers to the 2024-2025 season.</dd>
<dt>analyst_name</dt>
<dd>Name to identify the user when doing web scraping. 
This is a polite way to do web scraping and certify that the user 
is working as transparently as possible with a research purpose.</dd>
<dt>verbose</dt>
<dd>Should R report information on progress? TRUE or FALSE.</dd>
<dt>num_days</dt>
<dd>Number of days to obtain.</dd>
<dt>edition_id</dt>
<dd>Identifier of the league edition. For 2024 is 975
and for 2025 is 979. For coming seasons, check it at the ACB website, such as
<a href="https://acb.com/calendario/index/temporada_id/2025">https://acb.com/calendario/index/temporada_id/2025</a> and click on any of
the days to see which url appears.</dd></dl>

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ACB day game codes — do_scrape_days_acb

<dl>

<dt>season</dt>
<dd>String with the starting year of the season. For example, "2024"
refers to the 2024-2025 season.</dd>


<dt>analyst_name</dt>
<dd>Name to identify the user when doing web scraping. 
This is a polite way to do web scraping and certify that the user 
is working as transparently as possible with a research purpose.</dd>


<dt>verbose</dt>
<dd>Should R report information on progress? TRUE or FALSE.</dd>


<dt>num_days</dt>
<dd>Number of days to obtain.</dd>


<dt>edition_id</dt>
<dd>Identifier of the league edition. For 2024 is 975
and for 2025 is 979. For coming seasons, check it at the ACB website, such as
<a href='https://acb.com/calendario/index/temporada_id/2025'>https://acb.com/calendario/index/temporada_id/2025</a> and click on any of
the days to see which url appears.</dd>

</dl>

do_scrape_days_acb: ACB day game codes

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