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Load wehoop WNBA Player Season Stats

Source: R/load_wnba.R
load_wnba_player_stats.Rd

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

Loads season-level WNBA player statistics scraped from ESPN. One row per athlete-team-season-statistic-grouping. Backed by the wehoop-wnba-data pipeline that reads raw JSONs from wehoop-wnba-raw and publishes parquet/rds artifacts to the espn_wnba_player_season_stats release tag.

Usage

load_wnba_player_stats_manifest()

load_wnba_player_stats(
  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 player season stats table within the database

Value

Returns a wehoop_data tibble of player season stats.

See also

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

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_wnba_player_stats(seasons = most_recent_wnba_season()))
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#> # A tibble: 8,080 × 16
#>    season athlete_id athlete_display_name athlete_first_name athlete_last_name
#>     <int>      <int> <chr>                <chr>              <chr>            
#>  1   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  2   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  3   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  4   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  5   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  6   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  7   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  8   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#>  9   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#> 10   2026       1054 Tiffany Hayes        Tiffany            Hayes            
#> # ℹ 8,070 more rows
#> # ℹ 11 more variables: athlete_position_abbreviation <chr>,
#> #   athlete_jersey <chr>, team_id <int>, team_display_name <chr>,
#> #   category <chr>, stat_label <chr>, stat_name <chr>, stat_display_name <chr>,
#> #   stat_description <chr>, display_value <chr>, value <dbl>
# }