Build a wide, one-row-per-team-per-season crosswalk linking ESPN, the WNBA
Stats API, and Fox Sports team identities, keyed on espn_team_id. Yahoo
columns are placeholders (NA) until that source is implemented.
Usage
wnba_team_crosswalk(season = most_recent_wnba_season(), .schedule = NULL)Arguments
- season
Season year (numeric). Defaults to the most recent WNBA season.
- .schedule
Internal. An already-fetched
wnba_schedule()frame, supplied bywnba_schedule_crosswalk()to avoid a duplicate CDN request. LeaveNULL.
Value
A wehoop_data tibble, one row per team:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season year. |
| espn_team_id | integer | ESPN team id (canonical key). |
| espn_abbreviation | character | ESPN abbreviation. |
| espn_display_name | character | ESPN display name. |
| espn_short_name | character | ESPN short name. |
| espn_location | character | ESPN team location. |
| espn_mascot | character | ESPN team mascot/nickname. |
| wnba_team_id | character | WNBA Stats team id. |
| wnba_team_tricode | character | WNBA Stats tricode. |
| wnba_team_name | character | WNBA Stats team name. |
| wnba_team_city | character | WNBA Stats team city. |
| wnba_team_slug | character | WNBA Stats team slug. |
| fox_team_id | character | Fox Bifrost team id. |
| fox_team_name | character | Fox team name. |
| yahoo_team_id | character | Yahoo team id (NA placeholder). |
| yahoo_team_abbreviation | character | Yahoo abbreviation (NA placeholder). |
| yahoo_team_name | character | Yahoo team name (NA placeholder). |
| match_method | character | How the row was matched. |
| match_confidence | numeric | Match confidence (1 for deterministic). |
See also
Other WNBA Crosswalk Functions:
load_wnba_player_crosswalk(),
load_wnba_schedule_crosswalk(),
load_wnba_team_crosswalk(),
wnba_player_crosswalk(),
wnba_schedule_crosswalk()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(wnba_team_crosswalk(season = 2024))
#> ℹ WNBA CDN schedule is for season 2026, not 2024. For historical seasons use `load_wnba_schedule(seasons = 2024)`.
#> ── WNBA team crosswalk (ESPN / WNBA Stats / Fox) ─────────────── wehoop 3.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-12 15:14:27 UTC
#> # A tibble: 15 × 19
#> season espn_team_id espn_abbreviation espn_display_name espn_short_name
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 20 ATL Atlanta Dream Dream
#> 2 2024 19 CHI Chicago Sky Sky
#> 3 2024 18 CON Connecticut Sun Sun
#> 4 2024 3 DAL Dallas Wings Wings
#> 5 2024 129689 GS Golden State Valkyries Valkyries
#> 6 2024 5 IND Indiana Fever Fever
#> 7 2024 17 LV Las Vegas Aces Aces
#> 8 2024 6 LA Los Angeles Sparks Sparks
#> 9 2024 8 MIN Minnesota Lynx Lynx
#> 10 2024 9 NY New York Liberty Liberty
#> 11 2024 11 PHX Phoenix Mercury Mercury
#> 12 2024 132052 POR Portland Fire Fire
#> 13 2024 14 SEA Seattle Storm Storm
#> 14 2024 131935 TOR Toronto Tempo Tempo
#> 15 2024 16 WSH Washington Mystics Mystics
#> # ℹ 14 more variables: espn_location <chr>, espn_mascot <chr>,
#> # wnba_team_id <chr>, wnba_team_tricode <chr>, wnba_team_name <chr>,
#> # wnba_team_city <chr>, wnba_team_slug <chr>, fox_team_id <chr>,
#> # fox_team_name <chr>, yahoo_team_id <chr>, yahoo_team_abbreviation <chr>,
#> # yahoo_team_name <chr>, match_method <chr>, match_confidence <dbl>
# }