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))
#> ✖ 2026-06-30 19:40:33.995954: 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"
# }