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 (2002-2023) ~ 1-2 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wnba_pbp <- wehoop::load_wnba_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()## 1.39 sec elapsed
## 102191 rows of WNBA play-by-play data from 262 games.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()## 1.7 sec elapsed
## 328507 rows of women's college basketball play-by-play data from 959 games.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,
author = {Saiem Gilani and Geoff Hutchinson},
title = {wehoop: The SportsDataverse's R Package for Women's Basketball Data.},
url = {https://wehoop.sportsdataverse.org},
year = {2021}
}