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Get ESPN WNBA Draft Picks

Get ESPN WNBA Draft Picks

Usage

espn_wnba_draft(season = most_recent_wnba_season(), ...)

Arguments

season

Season year (numeric, e.g. 2025). Defaults to the most recent WNBA season.

...

Additional arguments; currently unused but retained for forward compatibility. Proxy configuration should use options(wehoop.proxy = ...).

Value

A wehoop_data tibble with one row per draft pick:

col_nametypes
seasoninteger
roundinteger
pickinteger
overallinteger
tradedlogical
trade_notecharacter
statuscharacter
athlete_idcharacter
athlete_refcharacter
team_idcharacter
team_refcharacter

Athlete and team details (name, position, college, abbreviation) are not inlined in the draft response; resolve them via espn_wnba_athlete_info() or espn_wnba_team() using the returned IDs.

Details

Calls the ESPN core-v2 endpoint https://sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/basketball/leagues/wnba/seasons/{year}/draft/rounds, which returns each round of the draft with its picks inlined as picks: [...]. For historical seasons with no ESPN draft data the function returns an empty tibble rather than erroring.

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  espn_wnba_draft(season = 2024)
#> ── ESPN WNBA Draft Picks from ESPN.com ───────────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#>  Data updated: 2026-05-06 04:51:30 UTC
#> # A tibble: 36 × 11
#>    season round  pick overall traded trade_note    status athlete_id athlete_ref
#>     <int> <int> <int>   <int> <lgl>  <chr>         <chr>  <chr>      <chr>      
#>  1   2024     1     1       1 FALSE  NA            SELEC… 108565     http://spo…
#>  2   2024     1     2       2 FALSE  NA            SELEC… 108566     http://spo…
#>  3   2024     1     3       3 TRUE   From PHX      SELEC… 108569     http://spo…
#>  4   2024     1     4       4 TRUE   From SEA      SELEC… 108567     http://spo…
#>  5   2024     1     5       5 TRUE   From CHI      SELEC… 108570     http://spo…
#>  6   2024     1     6       6 FALSE  NA            SELEC… 108568     http://spo…
#>  7   2024     1     7       7 TRUE   From MIN      SELEC… 108572     http://spo…
#>  8   2024     1     8       8 TRUE   From CHI via… SELEC… 108574     http://spo…
#>  9   2024     1     9       9 FALSE  NA            SELEC… 108581     http://spo…
#> 10   2024     1    10      10 FALSE  NA            SELEC… 108577     http://spo…
#> # ℹ 26 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: team_id <chr>, team_ref <chr>
# }