Load wehoop WNBA Draft

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

Loads season-level WNBA draft picks scraped from ESPN. One row per pick. Backed by the wehoop-wnba-data pipeline that reads raw JSONs from wehoop-wnba-raw and publishes parquet/rds artifacts to the espn_wnba_draft release tag.

Usage

load_wnba_draft_manifest()

load_wnba_draft(
  seasons = most_recent_wnba_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given WNBA draft 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 draft data table within the database

Value

Returns a wehoop_data tibble of WNBA draft picks.

col_name	types
season	integer
round	integer
pick	integer
overall	integer
team_id	character
team_display_name	character
athlete_id	character
athlete_display_name	character
athlete_position	character
college_id	character
college_name	character

See also

Other WNBA loader functions: load_wnba_game_rosters_manifest(), load_wnba_officials_manifest(), load_wnba_player_stats_manifest(), load_wnba_rosters_manifest(), load_wnba_shots_manifest(), load_wnba_standings_manifest(), load_wnba_team_stats_manifest()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_wnba_draft(seasons = most_recent_wnba_season()))
#> Warning: cannot open URL 'https://github.com/sportsdataverse/sportsdataverse-data/releases/download/espn_wnba_draft/draft_2026.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
#> Warning: Failed to readRDS from <https://github.com/sportsdataverse/sportsdataverse-data/releases/download/espn_wnba_draft/draft_2026.rds>
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#> # A tibble: 0 × 0
# }