provolleyballr (version 0.1.0)

mlv_stats: Extract Data from Major League Volleyball Website

Description

This function scrapes team match-by-match and player season statistics for Major League Volleyball (MLV) teams from the official website https://provolleyball.com.

Usage

mlv_stats(team = NULL, year = NULL, level = NULL, stored = TRUE)

Value

A tibble containing team match-by-match or player season statistics.

Team match data include: year, team, date, opponent, result, kills, assists, service_aces, blocks, out, attack_attempts, hitting_efficiency, digs, digs_per_set, sets_played

Player data include: year, team, number, player, sets_played, matches_played, points, points_per_set, kills, kills_per_set, attack_errors, attack_attempts, hitting_efficiency, assists, assists_per_set, service_aces, service_aces_per_set, serve_errors, service_errors_per_set, digs, digs_per_set, blocks, blocks_per_set

Arguments

team

A character string specifying the team name or city. Accepts city names (e.g., "Omaha", "Atlanta") or variations like "Indianapolis" (converted to "Indy") and "Las Vegas" (converted to "Vegas"). Must match one of the valid LOVB or MLV team cities. AU has no teams.

year

A numeric value specifying the year for which to retrieve statistics. Must be 2024 or later for LOVB or MLV and 2021 or later for AU.

level

A character string specifying whether to extract the "team" or individual "player" statistics. AU has no team statistics.

stored

A logical specifying whether to use stored data for previous years (TRUE is default) or force the function to scrape the website (FALSE)

See Also

Other statistics functions: au_stats(), get_stats(), group_stats(), lovb_stats()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# Get Omaha Supernovas 2024 match statistics
mlv_stats(team = "Omaha", year = 2024, level = "team")
mlv_stats(team = "Omaha", year = 2024, level = "player")
}