New Features

• New functions to plot match score wormsplot_score_worm andplot_score_worm_totals
• Include date of birth for each player infetch_player_stats_afltables

Bug Fixes

• Fix age for players playing on birthday infetch_player_stats_afltables() (#240)
• Remove dupes for players drafted twice infetch_player_details_footywire() (#242)
• Fixed bug where round 25 was returning NA infetch_results_afltables
• Fixed a bug where certain games weren't getting rescraped automatically infetch_player_stats_afltables (#243)
• Removed Fryzigg tests that were failing

New Features

• Include Extra-Time scores infetch_player_stats_afltables for any games that went to extra-time (HQET and AQET) (#155)
• Include afltables url, Age, and Career.Games as at that game for each player infetch_player_stats_afltables
• Include Coach and Home.Away for each team for each game infetch_player_stats_afltables

Bug Fixes

• Corrected date parsing issues for AFL tables data, ensuring accurate date formats. (#136)
• Change way of fetching umpire names to avoid occasionally grabbing the wrong field from AFL tables (#170)
• Fix substitute column - now contains on and off for all available games
• Fixes for players with incorrect AFL tables player ids - mainly due to player name changes.
• Fixed an issue wherefind_season_id was only returning the last 10 seasons (#225)
• Updating some deprecated CLI messaging functions
• Updatedreplace_venues to handle different data source naming conventions (#164)

New Features

• Updated the Squiggle API code to be more flexible
• Updatedreplace_teams to handle for indigenous round team names and made it more robust to handle random team name variations (#215)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug wherefetch_footywire_stats was breaking due to an 'unused sub' in game this year (#201)
• Fixed a bug wherefetch_player_details was failing
• Removed a test forfetch_lineup due to the response being unreliable depending on the time of year
• Fixed a bug wherefetch_fixture_footywire wasn't working for season 2024 due to Opening round (#209)
• Fixed a bug wherefetch_results_footywire wasn't working for season 2024 due to Opening round (#211)

• Fixed a bug wherefetch_footywire_stats was breaking due to changes in the footywire site
• Fixed a bug with new debut players receiving an ID of 0 infetch_player_stats_afltables (#189)
• Fixed a bug withfetch_player_stats_afl where it was throwing an error if trying to get AFL stats for a new season. It now returns NULL instead of an error (#190)
• Fixed a minor bug with the rendering of messages infetch_player_stats_afl (#185)
• Fixed a range of warnings that were either unhelpful or not being adequately captured in unit tests
• Added proper lifecycle deprecation to the oldget_ functions. These will be formally removed in the next release

Breaking changes

• Fixed a bug infetch_player_stats_afltables where NULL date was defaulting to 1897 instead of current season like otherfetch_* functions (#175). This is breaking behaviour to previous versions so will bump the version number but it should be an expected change to make the argument consistent with others

Second 2022 AFLW Season is now returned

• Having two seasons from the same year was preventing users from accessing the 2nd season. * This release fixes this issue. Any AFLW related function should now return both seasons, which is not ideal but the best I can think of without moving towards named seasons (#184)

Non-AFL data

• There are now more competitions that the AFL source can download using thecomp argument such as (#173)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug that was preventing Fremantle player details from being returned infetch_player_details_footwire (#169)

• Fixed bug that was causing an error if a round didn't have full lineups

• Fixed issue in the cached data where some dates were missing, depending on when the data was scraped (#181)

• Fixed issue where specific players were getting ID's assigned incorrectly. I've partially fixed that issue but will only be useful for bugs found in 2021 onwards. I'll have to manually fix older issues (#168)

New features

• Added new set of functions for fetching player details -fetch_player_details and associated helper functionsfetch_player_details_afl,fetch_player_details_footywire andfetch_player_details_afltables will return the player details for a particular team and season

• Added functionfetch_coaches_votes to retrieve AFLCA coaches votes for any given match@jlholden26

• Added functioncalculate_coaches_vote_possibilities to return all possible breakdowns of AFLCA coaches votes between two coaches@jlholden26

Minor improvements and fixes

• Fixed an a bug infetch_fixture_footywire for older versions of R#146

• Fixed type mismatch infetch_player_stats_afltables and handling blank seasons infetch_ladder_afl (#149,@cfranklin11)

• Updated error message incheck_source which is used in various functions#147

• Fixed issue withfetch_results_afltabeles caused by areadr update

New Features

• Added a new group offetch_* functions to provide a common API to various data sources. Each function has common arguments and provides consistent behaviour
• fetch_fixture and associated helper functionsfetch_fixture_afl,fetch_fixture_footywire andfetch_fixture_squiggle will return the fixture for a particular season and round
• fetch_results and associated helper functionsfetch_results_afl,fetch_results_footywire,fetch_results_sqiggle andfetch_results_afltables will return the results for a particular season and round
• fetch_ladder and associated helper functionsfetch_ladder_afl,fetch_ladder_sqiggle andfetch_ladder_afltables will return the ladder for a particular season and round.
• fetch_player_stats and associated helper functionsfetch_player_stats_footywire,fetch_player_stats_afltables andfetch_player_stats_fryzigg will return the match stats for a particular season and round.
• fetch_lineup and associated helper functionfetch_lineup_afl will return the lineup for a particular season and round, including upcoming matches if teams have been announced

Deprecated functions

The following have all been soft deprecated. They will still work but likely be removed in a future version.

• Deprecatedget_afl_fixture - please usefetch_fixture_afl
• Deprecatedget_fixture - usefetch_fixture_footywire
• Deprecatedget_match_results - usefetch_results_afltables
• Deprecatedget_footywire_match_results - usefetch_results_footywire
• Deprecatedreturn_ladder - usefetch_ladder_afltables
• Deprecatedget_footywire_stats - usefetch_footywire_stats
• Deprecatedget_fryzigg_stats - usefetch_player_stats_fryzigg
• Deprecatedget_afltables_stats - usefetch_player_stats_afltables
• Deprecatedupdate_footywire_stats - usefetch_player_stats_footywire
• Deprecatedget_footywire_betting_odds - usefetch_betting_odds_footywire
• Deprecatedget_score_progression_raw - no replacement
• Deprecatedget_footywire_match_ids - usefetch_footywire_match_ids
• Deprecatedget_aflw_cookie - useget_afl_cookie
• Deprecatedget_aflw_match_data - usefetch_results_afl
• Deprecatedget_aflw_player_stats - usefetch_player_stats_fryzigg

Minor changes and bug fixes

• Fixed issue with master branch being renamed to main
• Fixed issue withfetch_betting_odds not working in new season
• Fixed issue withfetch_ladder where it was returning only latest season#145
• Various fixes to data sources have been made on the data repo

Breaking changes

• Changed how round numbers are calculated for Footywire data sets (from calendar weeks to using round labels in the HTML)@cfranklin11

New features

• Added AFL stats@fryzigg
• Added team colours@fryzigg
• Added AFLW stats@fryzigg
• Added new functionget_footywire_match_results to return results from recent games, in the case where afltables hasn't updated
• Added new functionget_afl_fixture to return fixture from afl.com.au
• Added new functionfetch_ladder_afl to return data function from AFL.com.au
• Added newfetch_ladder generic function to return ladder data

Minor improvements and fixes

• Fixed a bug withget_afl_fixture that was returning the wrong season if season was before 2012
• Removes all instances ofrvest::pluck in preparation for it being depreciated in rvest 1.0.0see changelog,@hadley
• Fixedget_footywire_betting_odds to handle duplicate date/venue combination in the 2020 season without raising error (#123,@cfranklin11)
• Fixed round calculations forget_fixture to handle the compressed 2020 fixture (#125,#128,#132,@cfranklin11)

General changes

• The Updated AFLW API URL has been updated to reflect changes to the afl.com.au website. This should now be working for the new season.

Bug Fixes

• Fixedget_footywire_betting_odds to return an empty data frame when only future seasons are requested rather than raising an error (#112,@cfranklin11)
• Fixed issue with afltables data that caused issues with home/away team in drawn finals matches#116
• Fixed issue with duplate rows in footywire data#115

• Updating vignettes to use internal data rather than downloading from the internet