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ESPN basketball endpoints -- WBB & WNBA: A tour of the ESPN basketball endpoint wrappers in wehoop – around 180 of them – grouped by use case: game data, team detail, athlete coverage, per-event enrichments, league-wide catalogs, WNBA draft/transactions/free-agency endpoints, and the post-3.0.0 core-v2 deep expansion (athlete career, team-season stats, per-game player box, play personnel, typed-detail companions).
Getting Started with wehoop: WNBA and Women's College Basketball Data in R: Install wehoop, learn which function family reads which source, load WNBA box scores and play-by-play, and make your first women’s basketball chart in R.
WNBA Stats API Parameter Descriptions: A searchable reference table of every query parameter used by the WNBA Stats API endpoints wrapped in wehoop – parameter name, description, accepted values, and which functions accept it.
Women's College Basketball Cookbook: A storytelling tour of women’s college basketball analysis with wehoop – recipes from a single game to a full bracket, plus NCAA NET rankings, and a running commentary on how to read the package’s function names.
WNBA Cookbook: A storytelling tour of WNBA analysis with wehoop – recipes from a single box score to a full season, with a running commentary on how the package’s function names are built so you can guess the next one.
WNBA Player Impact Model: RAPM, SPM, BPM, WAR and DARKO-Style Projections: How the WNBA player impact ratings behind load_wnba_player_impact() are built: possession RAPM, an SPM prior, box plus/minus, WAR and a DARKO-style projection.
WNBA and Women's College Basketball Shot Charts in R: Draw WNBA and NCAA women’s basketball shot charts in R with wehoop and sportyR: makes and misses, hexbin density, shot zones and FG% by zone.
Women's Basketball Advanced Metrics in R: Possessions, Pace, Ratings and the Four Factors: Compute WNBA and women’s college basketball advanced stats in R from wehoop box scores: possessions, pace, ratings, four factors, TS% and usage.
Women's College Basketball Player Value: Box Plus-Minus Model: How the NCAA women’s basketball box plus-minus ratings behind load_wbb_player_value() are built, how stable they are season to season, and how to use them.
Women's College Basketball RAPM: League-Wide and Within-Team Player Impact: How wehoop’s NCAA women’s basketball RAPM ratings are built from possessions and lineups, how to read them, and how to fit WNBA RAPM with wnba_rapm().
Women's College Basketball Team Ratings: Opponent-Adjusted Efficiency: How the opponent-adjusted NCAA women’s basketball team ratings behind load_wbb_ratings() work: adjusted offense, defense, tempo and net rating, with checks.
Women's College Basketball Win Probability Model: How the in-game win probability columns in wehoop’s NCAA women’s basketball play-by-play are built, and how well calibrated they are on a full season.
Women's International Basketball Data in R: FIBA, EuroLeague Women, WNBL, W League and More: A guide to wehoop’s international women’s basketball functions: FIBA World Cup, Olympics, EuroLeague Women, WNBL, W League, LFB, WBBL, DBBL and KBSL.