Build a wide, one-row-per-player-per-team crosswalk linking ESPN and Fox Sports (Bifrost) WBB player identities for a season. ESPN is the anchor source; Fox is matched by normalized name (exact first, then Jaro-Winkler fuzzy with jersey tiebreaker) within each team block. Yahoo columns are NA placeholders. Torvik and the WNBA Stats API have no per-player tables for WBB, so neither source is joined.
wbb_player_crosswalk(season = most_recent_wbb_season(), min_confidence = 0.92)A wehoop_data tibble, one row per player per team (ESPN-anchored):
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season year. |
| espn_team_id | integer | ESPN team id (canonical key). |
| team_abbreviation | character | ESPN team abbreviation. |
| player_name | character | Normalized player name (matching key). |
| espn_athlete_id | character | ESPN athlete id. |
| espn_full_name | character | ESPN full name. |
| espn_jersey | character | ESPN jersey number. |
| espn_position | character | ESPN position abbreviation. |
| fox_athlete_id | character | Fox athlete id (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_player | character | Fox player name (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_jersey | character | Fox jersey number (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_position_group | character | Fox position group label (NA if unmatched). |
| yahoo_player_id | character | Yahoo player id (NA placeholder). |
| yahoo_player_name | character | Yahoo player name (NA placeholder). |
| match_method | character | "exact_name"/"fuzzy_jw"/"unmatched". |
| match_confidence | numeric | Jaro-Winkler score or 1 for exact (NA if none). |
| match_keys | character | NA (reserved for future use). |
Season year (4-digit, e.g. 2025). Defaults to
most_recent_wbb_season().
Jaro-Winkler similarity floor for fuzzy matches (default 0.92).
Other WBB Crosswalk Functions:
load_wnba_team_crosswalk(),
wbb_schedule_crosswalk(),
wbb_team_crosswalk()
# \donttest{
try(wbb_player_crosswalk(season = 2025))
# }
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