Scrape NCAA Women's Basketball Teams (Division I, II, and III)

Scrapes the NCAA Stats per-season team list at http://stats.ncaa.org/team/inst_team_list?academic_year=YYYY&conf_id=-1&division=N&sport_code=WBB. Returns one row per team for the requested season-year and division, with the per-season season_id and team_id parsed out of the stats.ncaa.org team URL.

Network access: as of v3.0.0 stats.ncaa.org is fronted by Akamai and returns HTTP 403 (Reference #18.<...>) to many residential and cloud IP ranges regardless of headers. If you hit that block, supply a proxy that egresses from a non-blocked address — pass proxy = directly via ... (forwarded to .retry_request()), or set it once with options(wehoop.proxy = list(url=, port=, username=, password=)). See the wehoop CLAUDE.md / pkgdown docs for the full proxy resolution order.

Usage

ncaa_wbb_teams(year = most_recent_wbb_season(), division = 1, ...)

Arguments

year: The season for which data should be returned, in the form of "YYYY". Years currently available: 2002 onward.
division: Division - 1, 2, or 3.
...: Forwarded to the internal .retry_request() HTTP helper. The most useful pass-through is proxy = (string "http://host:port" or named list list(url=, port=, username=, password=, auth=)); see ?.retry_request for the full set of recognized arguments.

Value

A data frame with the following variables

col_name	types	description
team_id	character	Franchise team id (legacy `/team/{id}/...` urls).
team_name	character	Full team display name (e.g. 'Las Vegas Aces').
team_url	character	URL for team.
conference_id	character	Conference identifier.
conference	character	Filter players or teams by conference.
division	numeric	Team division.
year	numeric	4-digit year.
season_id	character	Season id (legacy urls).
season_team_id	character	Season-team id (modern `/teams/{id}` urls).

Details

  ncaa_wbb_teams(year = 2025, division = 1)

  # Behind a proxy (per-call):
  ncaa_wbb_teams(
    year = 2025, division = 1,
    proxy = list(url = "http://my-proxy", port = 8080,
                 username = "user", password = "pass")
  )

  # Or session-wide:
  options(wehoop.proxy = list(url = "http://my-proxy", port = 8080,
                              username = "user", password = "pass"))
  ncaa_wbb_teams(year = 2025, division = 1)