The nflverse is a set of packages dedicated to data and analysis of the National Football League.

Most data is stored in releases of thenflverse/nflverse-data repository, in various formats (csv, parquet, rds, qs being the primary ones). These can be accessed by any platform or programming language via the web URLs.

We also maintain a set of packages to facilitate access to this data and apply modelling.

• {nflverse} helps install and update all nflverse R packages.
• {nflreadr} provides easy access to nflverse data repositories.
• {nflfastR} cleans play by play data and applies EPA/WPA modelling.
  • Most users will want precomputed data, vianflreadr.
• {nflplotR} facilitates plotting NFL data.
• {nfl4th} studies fourth down decisions with nflverse data and models.
• {nflseedR} simulates NFL season schedules with the user's model.

• nflreadpy ports nflreadr to Python and provides easy, lightweight access to nflverse data repositories.

• NFLData.jl provides easy access to nflverse data repositories in Julia.

In most cases you should reach out to us on Discord:

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