usfootballR is an R package for working with American soccer data. The
package has functions to access live play-by-play and box score data
from ESPN with shot locations when available.
A scraping and aggregating interface for ESPN’s MLS and NWSL statistics. It provides users with the capability to access the API’s game play-by-plays, box scores, standings and results to analyze the data for themselves.
You can install the released version of
usfootballR from
GitHub with:
# You can install using the pacman package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pacman', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pacman')
}
pacman::p_load_current_gh("sportsdataverse/usfootballR", dependencies = TRUE, update = TRUE)For more information on the package and function reference, please see
the usfootballR documentation
website.
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To cite the usfootballR
R package in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{gilani_2021_usfootballR,
author = {Saiem Gilani},
title = {usfootballR: The SportsDataverse's R Package for MLS and NWSL Data.},
url = {https://usfootballR.sportsdataverse.org},
year = {2021}
}