wehoop
is an R package for working with women’s college and professional basketball data. The package has functions to access live play by play and box score data from ESPN with shot locations when available.
A scraping and aggregating interface for ESPN’s women’s college basketball and WNBA statistics. It provides users with the capability to access the API’s game play-by-plays, box scores, standings and results to analyze the data for themselves.
Installation
You can install the CRAN version of wehoop
with:
install.packages("wehoop")
You can install the released version of wehoop
from GitHub with:
# You can install using the pacman package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pacman', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pacman')
}
pacman::p_load_current_gh("sportsdataverse/wehoop", dependencies = TRUE, update = TRUE)
Quick Start
WNBA full play-by-play seasons (2002-2024) ~ 1-2 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wnba_pbp <- wehoop::load_wnba_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()
Women’s college basketball full play-by-play seasons (2004-2024) ~ 2-3 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wbb_pbp <- wehoop::load_wbb_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()
Documentation
For more information on the package and function reference, please see the wehoop
documentation website.
Our Authors
- Saiem Gilani (@saiemgilani)
- Geoff Hutchinson (@HutchNGo)
Citations
To cite the wehoop
R package in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{hutchinson_gilani_2021_wehoop,
title = {wehoop: Access Women’s Basketball Play by Play Data},
url = {http://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wehoop},
DOI = {10.32614/cran.package.wehoop},
journal = {CRAN: Contributed Packages},
publisher = {The R Foundation},
author = {Gilani, Saiem and Hutchinson, Geoffery},
year = {2021},
month = nov
}