Get end-of-season award voting from Basketball-Reference.
Returns the voting results for the major end-of-season awards (MVP, Rookie of
the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man, Most Improved, Clutch
Player, Coach of the Year) in one tidy tibble, one row per candidate per
award. No API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive
scraping (~20 requests/minute) -- space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().
bref_awards(season = most_recent_nba_season())A hoopR_data tibble with one row per award candidate:
| col_name | types | description |
| award | character | Award slug (mvp, roy, dpoy, smoy, mip, clutch_poy, coy). |
| rank | integer | Finish in the voting. |
| player | character | Player (or coach) name. |
| age | integer | Age. |
| team | character | Team abbreviation. |
| votes_first | numeric | First-place votes. |
| points_won | numeric | Voting points won. |
| points_max | numeric | Maximum possible voting points. |
| award_share | numeric | Share of the maximum voting points. |
| season | integer | Season (echoes the season argument). |
(integer required): Season, in 4-digit ending-year format
(e.g. 2024). Defaults to most_recent_nba_season().
Other Basketball-Reference Functions:
bref_draft(),
bref_injuries(),
bref_player_bios(),
bref_player_game_log(),
bref_players_stats(),
bref_standings(),
bref_team_roster(),
bref_teams_stats()
# \donttest{
try(bref_awards(season = 2024))
# }
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