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Game header of a final game: both teams, the result flag and the score by period, one row.

Endpoint: GET https://api.wjbl.01core.app/api/play-schedule/detail

Usage

wjbl_game(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_game):

col_nametypedescription
play_schedule_idintegerGame id: ONE global sequence across every league edition and season (7987 = 2025-26 playoff final game 1); the play_schedule_id of the request.
game_statuscharacterGame state; always fixed (final) here, the wrapper refuses a game that is not final.
home_team_idintegerHome team: Franchise id team_id (key space: W League franchises, STABLE across seasons and sponsor renames: 13 = Toyota Antelopes, 12 = Denso Iris, 8 = ENEOS Sunflowers; all-star sides have their own ids, e.g. 591). The team_id of /team/roster and of the site's /team/roster/?team_id=. Not season_team_id.
home_season_team_namecharacterHome team name: Team name as registered for the season, in Japanese (company + nickname: Toyota Antelopes).
home_season_team_short_namecharacterHome team short name: Short team name for that season, Japanese (Toyota).
home_team_logo_imagecharacterHome team logo: Team logo path, relative to https://www.wjbl.org ('/static/images/base_team/...png' or '/assets/img/team/...png').
home_team_entry_flgintegerOfficial-league participant flag: 1 = a W League member team (the site links its roster), 0 = not (guest or all-star side). Integer.
home_season_team_areacharacterUnobserved: null in every sample, so no type and no meaning is claimed. (By the site's standings JS: 0 = East, 1 = West conference when season_league_flg = 2.)
home_free_textcharacterFree-text team label used when the slot has no team (e.g. 'winner of game X'); empty string in every sample.
home_winner_flgintegerResult for this side: 1 = won, -1 = lost (integer; a 0 tie code is unobserved).
home_scoreintegerHome points after the play, parsed from score ('HOME-AWAY'); null on plays that carry no score.
home_score_p1integerPoints scored IN the 1st quarter (not cumulative).
home_score_p2integerPoints scored in the 2nd quarter.
home_score_p3integerPoints scored in the 3rd quarter.
home_score_p4integerPoints scored in the 4th quarter.
home_score_ot1integerPoints scored in the 1st overtime (5 min); null when there was none.
home_score_ot2integerUnobserved: null in every sample. When filled: Points in the 2nd overtime; null when none.
home_score_ot3integerUnobserved: null in every sample. When filled: Points in the 3rd overtime; null when none.
home_score_ot4integerUnobserved: null in every sample. When filled: Points in the 4th overtime; null when none. There is no score_ot5+: overtimes 5-10 appear only as play-by-play period 9-14 and in the /pbp/team-stats and /pbp/player-stats periods maps.
away_team_idintegerAway team: Franchise id team_id (key space: W League franchises, STABLE across seasons and sponsor renames: 13 = Toyota Antelopes, 12 = Denso Iris, 8 = ENEOS Sunflowers; all-star sides have their own ids, e.g. 591). The team_id of /team/roster and of the site's /team/roster/?team_id=. Not season_team_id.
away_season_team_namecharacterAway team name: Team name as registered for the season, in Japanese (company + nickname: Toyota Antelopes).
away_season_team_short_namecharacterAway team short name: Short team name for that season, Japanese (Toyota).
away_team_logo_imagecharacterAway team logo: Team logo path, relative to https://www.wjbl.org ('/static/images/base_team/...png' or '/assets/img/team/...png').
away_team_entry_flgintegerOfficial-league participant flag: 1 = a W League member team (the site links its roster), 0 = not (guest or all-star side). Integer.
away_season_team_areacharacterUnobserved: null in every sample, so no type and no meaning is claimed. (By the site's standings JS: 0 = East, 1 = West conference when season_league_flg = 2.)
away_free_textcharacterFree-text team label used when the slot has no team (e.g. 'winner of game X'); empty string in every sample.
away_winner_flgintegerResult for this side: 1 = won, -1 = lost (integer; a 0 tie code is unobserved).
away_scoreintegerAway points after the play, parsed from score ('HOME-AWAY'); null on plays that carry no score.
away_score_p1integerPoints scored IN the 1st quarter (not cumulative).
away_score_p2integerPoints scored in the 2nd quarter.
away_score_p3integerPoints scored in the 3rd quarter.
away_score_p4integerPoints scored in the 4th quarter.
away_score_ot1integerPoints scored in the 1st overtime (5 min); null when there was none.
away_score_ot2integerUnobserved: null in every sample. When filled: Points in the 2nd overtime; null when none.
away_score_ot3integerUnobserved: null in every sample. When filled: Points in the 3rd overtime; null when none.
away_score_ot4integerUnobserved: null in every sample. When filled: Points in the 4th overtime; null when none. There is no score_ot5+: overtimes 5-10 appear only as play-by-play period 9-14 and in the /pbp/team-stats and /pbp/player-stats periods maps.

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