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Load wehoop WNBA Rosters

Source: R/load_wnba.R
load_wnba_rosters.Rd

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

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

Usage

load_wnba_rosters_manifest()

load_wnba_rosters(
  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 rosters data table within the database

Value

Returns a wehoop_data tibble with one row per athlete-team-season.

See also

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

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_wnba_rosters(seasons = most_recent_wnba_season()))
#> ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#> # A tibble: 208 × 36
#>    season team_id team_slug team_abbreviation team_display_name
#>     <int>   <int> <chr>     <chr>             <chr>            
#>  1   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  2   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  3   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  4   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  5   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  6   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  7   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  8   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#>  9   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#> 10   2026      11 NA        PHX               Phoenix Mercury  
#> # ℹ 198 more rows
#> # ℹ 31 more variables: team_short_display_name <chr>, team_color <chr>,
#> #   team_alternate_color <chr>, team_logo <chr>, athlete_id <chr>, uid <chr>,
#> #   guid <chr>, full_name <chr>, display_name <chr>, short_name <chr>,
#> #   first_name <chr>, last_name <chr>, jersey <chr>,
#> #   position_abbreviation <chr>, position_name <chr>, position_id <chr>,
#> #   height <chr>, weight <chr>, age <chr>, date_of_birth <chr>, …
# }