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Get the WNBA cross-source player crosswalk

Source: R/wnba_crosswalk.R
wnba_player_crosswalk.Rd

Build a wide, one-row-per-player-per-team crosswalk linking ESPN, WNBA Stats, and Fox player identities for a season. Matching is deterministic: normalized exact name within a team block, then Jaro-Winkler fuzzy with jersey/DOB tiebreakers. Yahoo columns are NA placeholders.

Usage

wnba_player_crosswalk(
  season = most_recent_wnba_season(),
  min_confidence = 0.92
)

Arguments

season

Season year (numeric). Defaults to the most recent WNBA season.

min_confidence

Jaro-Winkler similarity floor for fuzzy matches (default 0.92).

Value

A wehoop_data tibble, one row per player per team (ESPN-anchored).

See also

Other WNBA Crosswalk Functions: load_wnba_player_crosswalk(), load_wnba_schedule_crosswalk(), load_wnba_team_crosswalk(), wnba_schedule_crosswalk(), wnba_team_crosswalk()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(wnba_player_crosswalk(season = 2024))
#> ✖ 2026-06-30 19:38:24.931651: Invalid arguments or no league schedule data for 2024 available!
#> ✖ Args: league_id = "10", season = 2024
#> ✖ Error: lexical error: invalid char in json text.                                        <!DOCTYPE html> <html>  <head>                       (right here) ------^ 
#> Error in UseMethod("transmute") : 
#>   no applicable method for 'transmute' applied to an object of class "NULL"
# }