Load wehoop WBB Officials

load_wbb_officials_manifest() returns the per-season manifest CSV (season, row_count, generated_at_utc, source_endpoint) for the officials release tag without downloading any season's full data.

Loads game-level officials data scraped from ESPN women's college basketball summary feeds. One row per official-game pair. Backed by the wehoop-wbb-data pipeline that reads raw JSONs from wehoop-wbb-raw and publishes parquet/rds artifacts to the espn_womens_college_basketball_officials release tag.

Usage

load_wbb_officials_manifest()

load_wbb_officials(
  seasons = most_recent_wbb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given women's college basketball seasons. (Min: 2002)

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database.

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()

tablename

The name of the officials data table within the database

Value

Returns a wehoop_data tibble with one row per official-game pair.

col_name	types	description
game_id	character	Unique game identifier.
season	integer	Season identifier (4-digit year or 'YYYY-YY' string).
official_id	character	Unique official / referee identifier.
display_name	character	Display name.
full_name	character	Player's full name.
first_name	character	Player's first name.
last_name	character	Player's last name.
position	character	Listed roster position (G, F, C, etc.).
order	integer	Display order within the result set.

See also

Other WBB loader functions: load_wbb_game_rosters_manifest(), load_wbb_player_stats_manifest(), load_wbb_rosters_manifest(), load_wbb_shots_manifest(), load_wbb_standings_manifest(), load_wbb_team_stats_manifest()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_wbb_officials(seasons = most_recent_wbb_season()))
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#> # A tibble: 17,458 × 11
#>    season game_id   official_id official_uid official_full_name
#>     <int> <chr>           <int> <chr>        <chr>             
#>  1   2026 401811123       18886 NA           Tiffany Bird      
#>  2   2026 401811123     4078084 NA           Tommi Paris       
#>  3   2026 401811123     5123944 NA           Gina Cantanzariti 
#>  4   2026 401822217       19038 NA           Chuck Gonzalez    
#>  5   2026 401822217     4286788 NA           Nicole Leon       
#>  6   2026 401822217     4291736 NA           Erica Parker      
#>  7   2026 401809048       19777 NA           Charles Watson    
#>  8   2026 401809048     3986420 NA           Angel Kent        
#>  9   2026 401809048     4602668 NA           Ashley Olsen      
#> 10   2026 401827851       19126 NA           Kevin Pethtel     
#> # ℹ 17,448 more rows
#> # ℹ 6 more variables: official_display_name <chr>, official_first_name <chr>,
#> #   official_last_name <chr>, official_order <int>, position_name <chr>,
#> #   position_display_name <chr>
# }