get_espn_athlete

<code>get_espn_athlete()</code> retrieves information on an <code>athlete</code> for a given <code>season</code>, including but not limited to his name, bio-metrics, birth date and location, position, team(s), and jersey number. Access <code>get_espn_athletes()</code> for <code>athlete</code> and <code>get_seasons()</code> for <code>season</code> references.

Scrapes data from the 'NHL' and 'ESPN' APIs into 'tibble's. It primarily wraps endpoints documented by Zach Maludzinski (2023) <https://github.com/Zmalski/NHL-API-Reference>, Drew Hynes (2018) <https://gitlab.com/dword4/nhlapi/>, and Joseph Wilson (2023) <https://github.com/pseudo-r/Public-ESPN-API>, covering data from high-level multi-season summaries and award winners to low-level play-by-play logs and sports books' odds.

Rento Saijo

nhlscraper

Scraper for National Hockey League Data

Lars Skytte

get_espn_athlete function

<dl><dt>athlete</dt>
<dd>integer ESPN Athlete (Player) ID</dd>
<dt>season</dt>
<dd>integer Season in YYYY</dd></dl>

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Get athlete (player) by ESPN Athlete (Player) ID and season — get_espn_athlete

<dl>

<dt>athlete</dt>
<dd>integer ESPN Athlete (Player) ID</dd>


<dt>season</dt>
<dd>integer Season in YYYY</dd>

</dl>

get_espn_athlete: Get athlete (player) by ESPN Athlete (Player) ID and season

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