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League table of one or more season phases: rank and record of every team.

Endpoint: GET https://api.wjbl.01core.app/api/team-standings

Usage

wjbl_team_standings(season_ids)

Arguments

season_ids

Season phase id or ids (season_id in wjbl_standing_seasons; a phase inside a league edition, not a year): an integer, a list or a comma string such as '169,170' (2025-26 regular season Premier and Future divisions).

Value

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

col_nametypedescription
season_idintegerSeason-phase id season_id (key space: phases WITHIN a league_id, e.g. 169 = 25-26 regular season Premier, 170 = 25-26 regular season Future, 176 = 25-26 playoff final). Not a year: one league_id has several season_ids. The season_ids parameter of /team-standings and /team-ranking and the season_id of /team/roster.
season_titlecharacterPhase title in Japanese: regular season, (Japanese text) / playoff final, playoff semifinal (the separator varies by era).
league_namecharacterDivision name, Japanese (Premier).
season_league_namecharacterPhase / division label in Japanese: Premier, Future, group stage, second round, lower league; empty for a single-table phase.
season_league_flgintegerDivision layout flag: 1 = one table per division (Premier / Future), 2 = split by season_team_area (East / West, by the site's JS), 0 = cup / group stage.
update_datecharacterAs-of date in Japanese, (Japanese text).
team_idintegerFranchise 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.
season_team_namecharacterTeam name as registered for the season, in Japanese (company + nickname: Toyota Antelopes).
season_team_short_namecharacterShort team name for that season, Japanese (Toyota).
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.
positionintegerRank of the team in the phase (a string on the wire, equal to the map key).
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.)
win_lostcharacterRecord in Japanese, (Japanese text) (23 wins, 5 losses).
winsintegerWins in the record, parsed from win_lost (23 wins).
lossesintegerLosses in the record, parsed from win_lost (5 losses).

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_team_standings(season_ids = "169"))
#> Error in wjbl_team_standings(season_ids = "169") : 
#>   api.wjbl.01core.app/api/team-standings answered HTTP 503:
#> {"message":"Service Unavailable"}
# }