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Get ESPN WNBA Injuries

Get ESPN WNBA Injuries

Usage

espn_wnba_injuries(season = most_recent_wnba_season(), ...)

Arguments

season

Numeric or character season year (e.g. 2025). The ESPN injury endpoint does not filter by season server-side; the value is attached as a constant column on the returned tibble for downstream joins. Defaults to most_recent_wnba_season().

...

Currently unused; reserved for future argument threading.

Value

Returns a tibble of league-wide WNBA injury records. Returns an empty tibble (zero rows) when no injuries are reported.

Injuries

col_nametypes
team_idcharacter
athlete_idcharacter
athlete_namecharacter
positioncharacter
statuscharacter
datecharacter
typecharacter
sidecharacter
returns_atcharacter
short_commentcharacter
long_commentcharacter
seasoninteger

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  espn_wnba_injuries()
#> ── ESPN WNBA Injury Information from ESPN.com ────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#>  Data updated: 2026-05-06 04:51:35 UTC
#> # A tibble: 14 × 12
#>    team_id athlete_id athlete_name position status date  type  side  returns_at
#>    <chr>   <chr>      <chr>        <chr>    <chr>  <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>     
#>  1 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  2 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  3 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  4 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  5 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  6 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  7 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  8 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#>  9 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#> 10 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#> 11 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#> 12 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#> 13 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#> 14 NA      NA         NA           NA       NA     NA    NA    NA    NA        
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: short_comment <chr>, long_comment <chr>, season <int>
# }