A utility to quickly obtain clean and tidy college football data. Serves as a wrapper around the <https://collegefootballdata.com/> API and provides functions to access live play by play and box score data from ESPN <https://www.espn.com> when available. It provides users the capability to access a plethora of endpoints, and supplement that data with additional information (Expected Points Added/Win Probability added).
| Version: | 2.0.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | cli (≥ 3.0.0),data.table (≥ 1.15.0),dplyr (≥ 1.0.0),glue (≥ 1.4.0),httr,janitor,jsonlite,lubridate,magrittr,mgcv (≥ 1.8-33),nnet,progressr (≥ 0.6.0),purrr (≥ 0.3.0),Rcpp (≥ 1.0.7),RcppParallel (≥ 5.1.4),rlang (≥ 0.4.10),stringr (≥ 1.4.0),tibble (≥ 3.0),tidyr (≥ 1.2.0) |
| Suggests: | crayon (≥ 1.3.4),curl,DBI,ggplot2,ggrepel,qs (≥0.25.1),rmarkdown,RSQLite, stats,stringi,testthat,usethis (≥ 1.6.0),xgboost (≥ 1.1) |
| Published: | 2025-09-09 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.cfbfastR |
| Author: | Saiem Gilani [cre, aut], Akshay Easwaran [aut], Jared Lee [aut], Eric Hess [aut], Michael Egle [ctb], Nate Manzo [ctb], Jason DeLoach [ctb], Tej Seth [ctb], Conor McQuiston [ctb], Tan Ho [ctb], Keegan Abdoo [ctb], Matt Spencer [ctb], Sebastian Carl [ctb], John Edwards [ctb], Brad Hill [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Saiem Gilani <saiem.gilani at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/sportsdataverse/cfbfastR/issues |
| License: | MIT + fileLICENSE |
| URL: | https://cfbfastR.sportsdataverse.org/,https://github.com/sportsdataverse/cfbfastR |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README,NEWS |
| In views: | SportsAnalytics |
| CRAN checks: | cfbfastR results |