The recent-games window of a competition, with the global Genius team ids.
Endpoint: GET https://fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com/data/competition/{comp_id}.json
A few recent or upcoming games, not the season. Scores are cast to integer (NA before tip-off). match_time is local (zone not stated), match_time_utc UTC.
Arguments
- comp_id
Genius competition id: one per org competition-season (
comp_idofgenius_competitions()), e.g. 49915.- return_parsed
Parse into a tibble (default
TRUE);FALSEreturns the parsed body or page record (a list):data.jsonas served plus_request(the ids asked for), or the sdv-internal-refs capture shape of a page.
Value
A wehoop_data tibble (a zero-row tibble with these columns when Genius answers
an empty valid page), or the raw list when return_parsed = FALSE:
| col_name | type | description |
| league_id | integer | Genius league id of the org (ESAKE = 115); the leagueId column of the hosted chooser |
| competition_id | integer | Genius competition id (compId): one per org competition-season; the {compId} of hosted and data/competition paths |
| match_id | integer | Genius match id: the {matchId} of data.json and /u/; one global sequence across every Genius customer (~0.3 M in 2016, ~2.9 M in Oct 2026) |
| match_status | character | Match status: COMPLETE, SCHEDULED, IN_PROGRESS, ... (upper case) |
| match_time | character | Local tip-off time, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' (venue time zone, not stated) |
| match_time_utc | character | Tip-off time in UTC, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' |
| live | integer | 1 while the game is live, else 0 |
| period | integer | Current period of a live or finished game (present on some rows only) |
| period_type | character | Current period type: REGULAR or OVERTIME (present on some rows only) |
| clock | character | Period clock of a live or finished game, 'mm:ss' remaining (present on some rows only) |
| home_team_id | integer | Home team: Genius team id (warehouse key space, global across orgs and seasons; the /team/{id} of hosted pages, the tid of the widget, the teamId of data/competition). data.json carries no team id: join on name/code |
| home_name | character | Home team full name, in the competition's own script when the org enters one. |
| home_name_international | character | Home team name in Latin script |
| home_code | character | Home team short code, in the competition's own script when the org enters one. |
| home_score | integer | Home points: a string on most rows, an integer on some (” before tip-off); cast it |
| away_team_id | integer | Away team: Genius team id (warehouse key space, global across orgs and seasons; the /team/{id} of hosted pages, the tid of the widget, the teamId of data/competition). data.json carries no team id: join on name/code |
| away_name | character | Away team full name, in the competition's own script when the org enters one. |
| away_name_international | character | Away team name in Latin script |
| away_code | character | Away team short code, in the competition's own script when the org enters one. |
| away_score | integer | Away points: a string on most rows, an integer on some (” before tip-off); cast it |
Details
Access. The Genius hosts publish no robots.txt and no terms. CloudFront refuses
datacenter IPs on the LiveStats and hosted hosts: from a server set
options(wehoop.proxy = ...) or the GENIUS_PROXY environment variable to an http(s)
proxy URL (never printed or logged). Requests are spaced at least one second apart
per host; keep crawls slow and incremental. Some league sites (the NZ NBL) forbid AI
crawlers in their own robots.txt, which does not cover these hosts. Unofficial use of a
public source: payloads are not redistributed as release assets.
Org and season. Every competition is an ORG code plus a competition id
(comp_id): genius_competitions() lists an org's competitions with the sdv END-year
season (a START-year org lists 2025-26 as season 2026), genius_match_competition()
maps a game to its competition, and data.json itself names no date, competition or
season. The hosted ORG can differ from the LiveStats ORG of /u/ (NZNBL vs NZN). Match
ids are one global sequence across every Genius customer. data.json carries no global
team or player id: tno (1 or 2) and pno are in-game numbers; only finished games
are read.
Errors (classed conditions, all inheriting wehoop_error): wehoop_no_data when
Genius has nothing for the request (HTTP 404, the S3 AccessDenied 403, an empty 200
from the hosted host, an empty recent-games window, a schedule or widget with no
matches); wehoop_bad_request for HTTP 400 / 422 or a URL that is not a Genius route
(e.g. a non-numeric id); wehoop_asset_fetch when the answer is unknown: the CloudFront
"Request blocked" 403, a rate limit or 5xx, the intermittent HTTP 500 "A website error
has occurred" page (transient = TRUE: retry later), a dead connection, an error
envelope, a cut-off page, an unfinished game, or a body for another match, competition
or ORG.
See also
Other Genius Functions:
genius_competitions(),
genius_game(),
genius_game_crosswalk(),
genius_match_competition(),
genius_pbp(),
genius_player_box(),
genius_schedule(),
genius_schedule_embed(),
genius_shots(),
genius_team_box(),
genius_team_crosswalk(),
genius_widget_games(),
lfb_competition,
wbbl_competition
Examples
# \donttest{
try(genius_competition_games(comp_id = 49915))
#> ── Genius LiveStats competition games ────────────────────────── wehoop 3.1.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-22 02:36:07 UTC
#> # A tibble: 2 × 20
#> league_id competition_id match_id match_status match_time match_time_utc live
#> <int> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 115 49915 2902695 COMPLETE 2026-10-1… 2026-10-18 10… 0
#> 2 115 49915 2902697 COMPLETE 2026-10-1… 2026-10-18 10… 0
#> # ℹ 13 more variables: period <int>, period_type <chr>, clock <chr>,
#> # home_team_id <int>, home_name <chr>, home_name_international <chr>,
#> # home_code <chr>, home_score <int>, away_team_id <int>, away_name <chr>,
#> # away_name_international <chr>, away_code <chr>, away_score <int>
# }