Load wehoop WNBA Officials

load_wnba_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 WNBA summary feeds. One row per official-game pair. Backed by the wehoop-wnba-data pipeline that reads raw JSONs from wehoop-wnba-raw and publishes parquet/rds artifacts to the espn_wnba_officials release tag.

Usage

load_wnba_officials_manifest()

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

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given WNBA 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
game_id	character
season	integer
official_id	character
display_name	character
full_name	character
first_name	character
last_name	character
position	character
order	integer

See also

Other WNBA loader functions: load_wnba_draft_manifest(), load_wnba_game_rosters_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_officials(seasons = most_recent_wnba_season()))
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#> # A tibble: 34 × 11
#>    season game_id   official_id official_uid official_full_name    
#>     <int> <chr>           <int> <chr>        <chr>                 
#>  1   2026 401856890       52042 NA           Roy Gulbeyan          
#>  2   2026 401856890     3951614 NA           Ryan Sassano          
#>  3   2026 401856890     4236122 NA           Tyler Mirkovich       
#>  4   2026 401856891       52044 NA           Fatou Cissoko-Stephens
#>  5   2026 401856891       52049 NA           Charles Watson        
#>  6   2026 401856891     4356548 NA           Clare Aubry           
#>  7   2026 401856892        1211 NA           Angelica Suffren      
#>  8   2026 401856892     5113092 NA           Sarah Williams        
#>  9   2026 401856892     5184398 NA           Josh Reed             
#> 10   2026 401856893        1183 NA           Tim Greene            
#> # ℹ 24 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>
# }