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Box score of a final game (2013-14 on): one row per player of both teams.

Endpoint: GET https://api.wjbl.01core.app/api/boxscore

Usage

wjbl_box_score(play_schedule_id)

Arguments

play_schedule_id

Game id (play_schedule_id in wjbl_schedule): ONE global sequence across every league edition and season, e.g. 7987 (2025-26 playoff final game 1), 5533 (2018-19), 4243 (2013-14 final, box score only). The game must be final.

Value

A wehoop_data tibble, one row per record; the columns are always these, in this order (sdv-py wjbl_box_score):

col_nametypedescription
play_schedule_idintegerGame id play_schedule_id (key space: W League games, ONE global sequence across every league_id and season, e.g. 4243 = 2013-14 final, 7987 = 2025-26 final). The play_schedule_id parameter of every game route and of the site's /schedule_result/detail/*?play_schedule_id= pages.
team_sidecharacterWhich side of the game the row belongs to: home or away (the API's home / away blocks).
team_idintegerFranchise id team_id of the side (stable across seasons and sponsor renames; 13 = Toyota Antelopes).
player_idintegerPlayer id player_id (key space: W League persons, STABLE across seasons and teams). The player_id of /player and the pi= of the site's /player/detail?pi=; joins the play-by-play player_id1 / player_id2.
player_namecharacterPlayer name in Japanese, 'SURNAME GIVEN' with a space (foreign players in katakana).
player_numbercharacterShirt number, a string.
gsintegerGame started: 1 = starter, 0 = bench (integer).
ptsintegerPoints. Integer.
p2mintegerTwo-point field goals made. Integer.
p2aintegerTwo-point field goals attempted. Integer.
p3mintegerThree-point field goals made. Integer.
p3aintegerThree-point field goals attempted. Integer.
ftmintegerFree throws made. Integer.
ftaintegerFree throws attempted. Integer.
fintegerPersonal fouls committed. Integer.
offintegerOffensive rebounds. Integer.
defintegerDefensive rebounds. Integer.
totintegerTotal rebounds (off + def). Integer.
astintegerAssists. Integer.
stlintegerSteals. Integer.
blkintegerBlocked shots (made by this player / team). Integer.
tointegerTurnovers. Integer.
mincharacterMinutes played 'mm:ss' ('22:19'), a string.
min_secondsintegerMinutes played in whole seconds, from the 'mm:ss' clock string min (null when it does not parse).

Details

  • Unofficial and unsupported: these wrappers read the JSON backend of www.wjbl.org (api.wjbl.01core.app), keyless, found in the site's own JavaScript. The site's terms of use (www.wjbl.org/kiyaku/) forbid reproducing, republishing or otherwise using site content without permission: a copyright clause, not an anti-scraping one. The wrappers fetch on the user's behalf; a published data release or a hosted mirror needs the owner's decision first. The site has no robots.txt (404, checked 2026-10-12), so no Crawl-delay is published; the runtime waits at least 1 s before every request, retries included. Payloads are not redistributed as release assets.

  • Women's league: the W League is Japan's top women's basketball league (the SportsDataverse R counterpart is wehoop). All text is Japanese (team names, phases, play-by-play actions); the column descriptions translate the vocabulary.

  • Seasons are END years (2026 = 2025-26, 2000 = 1999-2000). The API keys a season edition by an opaque league_id (45 = '25-26 W League'; every all-star game, cup and camp has one too) and the wrappers map the END year with the live league list (one extra, cached request; END = 2000 + the second YY of league_title). Phases inside an edition (season_id: 169 = regular season Premier, 170 = Future, 176 = playoff final; two divisions from 2024-25) are native ids, passed as given: wjbl_standing_seasons lists them with their END year.

  • The schedule is paged by month: wjbl_schedule answers ONE month (game_month, YYYY-MM; omitted = the season's latest month only). List the months with wjbl_game_months and loop. The game routes take only the global play_schedule_id and serve final games only: each makes one extra, cached request (the game header) to prove the game is final and that the answer is the game and the teams asked for.

  • Errors are HTTP 200: an unknown id answers [] (wehoop_no_data) and a missing or non-numeric parameter answers an error envelope (wehoop_asset_fetch). Coverage: schedules from 1999-2000, box scores from 2013-14, play-by-play and the period stats from 2018-19 (earlier games answer [] on the /pbp routes: wehoop_no_data). No route carries shot coordinates.

  • Personal data: the organiser's contact details (phones, e-mail) and the player's blood type are never output, and phone numbers and e-mail addresses inside free text are replaced by [redacted-phone] / [redacted-email]. Do not add them back. Player bio fields and referee names are public and stay.

  • Errors are classed conditions, all inheriting wehoop_error: wehoop_no_data (HTTP 404 or the API has nothing for the request: an empty list, an id it does not know, a game without play-by-play before 2018-19, a season without months or games), wehoop_bad_request (a season that is not the END year of a W League edition, an id that is not an integer or a game_month that is not YYYY-MM, raised before the request, or the API's HTTP 400 / 422) and wehoop_asset_fetch (any other failure: an error envelope at HTTP 200, any other non-2xx, an empty or non-JSON body, a game that is not final, a truncated play-by-play, or a body for another game, league edition, month, team, season phase or player than the one asked for; transient is TRUE for 408 / 429 / 5xx and transport failures). HTTP 500 is retried. Wrappers raise; they never warn and return an empty frame.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(wjbl_box_score(play_schedule_id = 7987))
#> Error in wjbl_box_score(play_schedule_id = 7987) : 
#>   api.wjbl.01core.app/api/play-schedule/detail answered HTTP 503:
#> {"message":"Service Unavailable"}
# }