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euroleaguer provides an easy way to retrieve data fromEuroleague andEurocup API with R.

This is an unofficial API wrapper and we recommend to follow usual rulesof conduct when dealing with open API calls.

To get the current released version from CRAN:

install.packages("euroleaguer")

To get the current development version fromGitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")devtools::install_github("FlavioLeccese92/euroleaguer")

Despite Euroleague official APIs are very well designed and immediate, amore intense analytical use demands a few adjustments in terms ofget-requests and output.

Witheuroleaguer it is possible to input multiple arguments at once(handling for loops internally), values are returned as tibbles andcolumns are consistent throughout all the functions, avoiding ambiguityof stats naming such as2FG% (2 field-goal %) for2P% (2 points %).In short, saving time on collection and cleaning and leaving more forpure analysis.

This package allows to retrieve a wide variety ofreal-time andhistorical data by different types of aggregation, particularly byplayer, team or game.

Standard statistics are available as well as some advanced such asAST/TO (ratio of assists made to turnovers committed) orAST-R(estimated % of assists per player’s offensive possessions) and manymore. Complete list can be foundhere.

An additional and insightful information is the coordinates of shots ingames which can be retrieved bygetGamePoints.

If you are interested in data visualization, some useful resources canbe found inarticles, which create the following plots: