A dataframe of participation data, optionally merged with play by play
Arguments
seasons
A numeric vector of 4-digit years associated with given NFL seasons - defaults to latest season. If set to TRUE, returns all available data since 2016.
include_pbp
a logical: download and join pbp to this data?
file_type
One of c("rds", "qs", "csv", "parquet"). Can also be set globally with
options(nflreadr.prefer)