hoopR (version 3.1.0)

bref_standings: Basketball-Reference Standings

Description

Get end-of-season conference standings from Basketball-Reference.

No API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive scraping (~20 requests/minute) -- space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().

Usage

bref_standings(season = most_recent_nba_season())

Value

A hoopR_data tibble with one row per team:

col_name	types	description
conference	character	Conference (E or W).
team	character	Team name (with playoff-seed marker stripped).
wins	integer	Wins.
losses	integer	Losses.
win_loss_pct	numeric	Win-loss percentage.
gb	character	Games behind the conference leader.
pts_per_g	numeric	Points scored per game.
opp_pts_per_g	numeric	Opponent points per game.
srs	numeric	Simple Rating System (point margin + SOS).
playoffs	logical	TRUE if the team made the playoffs (* marker).
season	integer	Season (echoes the season argument).

Arguments

season

(integer required): Season, in 4-digit ending-year format (e.g. 2024). Defaults to most_recent_nba_season().

See Also

Other Basketball-Reference Functions: bref_awards(), bref_draft(), bref_injuries(), bref_player_bios(), bref_player_game_log(), bref_players_stats(), bref_team_roster(), bref_teams_stats()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(bref_standings(season = 2024))
# }