Build a wide, one-row-per-team-per-season crosswalk linking ESPN,
Fox Sports (Bifrost), and Bart Torvik (barttorvik.com/ncaaw) women's
college basketball team identities, keyed on espn_team_id. Yahoo
columns are NA placeholders. ESPN is deduped by team_id (first
occurrence kept). Fox is joined on the full normalized mascot name (with
a curated alias bridge for cases where Fox and ESPN differ); Torvik is
joined on the normalized school/location name after a curated alias pass
for common divergences (e.g. "UConn" / "Connecticut", "Ole Miss" /
"Mississippi").
wbb_team_crosswalk(season = most_recent_wbb_season(), fox = NULL)A wehoop_data tibble, one row per ESPN team:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season year. |
| espn_team_id | integer | ESPN team id (canonical key). |
| espn_abbreviation | character | ESPN abbreviation. |
| espn_display_name | character | ESPN display name (school + mascot). |
| espn_short_name | character | ESPN short name. |
| espn_location | character | ESPN school/location only. |
| espn_mascot | character | ESPN mascot/nickname. |
| espn_conference | character | ESPN conference name. |
| fox_team_id | character | Fox Bifrost team id (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_team_name | character | Fox team name (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_section | character | Fox conference/section label (NA if unmatched). |
| bart_team | character | Torvik team name (NA if unmatched). |
| bart_conf | character | Torvik conference abbreviation (NA if unmatched). |
| yahoo_team_id | character | Yahoo team id (NA placeholder). |
| yahoo_team_name | character | Yahoo team name (NA placeholder). |
| fox_match_confidence | numeric | 1 for matched, NA for unmatched. |
| bart_match_confidence | numeric | 1 for matched, NA for unmatched. |
| match_method | character | "fox+bart"/"fox_only"/"bart_only"/"espn_only". |
Season year (4-digit, e.g. 2025). Defaults to
most_recent_wbb_season().
An already-fetched fox_wbb_teams_all() frame, or NULL
(default) to fetch live. Accepts a pre-fetched frame to avoid the
~60-second Fox enumeration when calling repeatedly.
Other WBB Crosswalk Functions:
load_wnba_team_crosswalk(),
wbb_player_crosswalk(),
wbb_schedule_crosswalk()
# \donttest{
try(wbb_team_crosswalk(season = 2025))
# }
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