Scrapes a team stat table from the league season page. No API key is required.
Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive scraping (~20 requests/minute) --
space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().
A hoopR_data tibble with one row per team (columns vary by table;
common identifying columns shown -- names are Basketball-Reference
data-stat keys):
col_name
types
description
ranker
integer
Row rank.
team
character
Team name.
g
integer
Games played.
mp
numeric
Minutes played.
pts
numeric
Points (scaled to the chosen table).
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().
table
(character optional): Which team table to return. One of
per_game (default, team per-game), totals, per_poss (per 100 poss),
advanced, or opponent (opponent per-game).