wehoop is an R package for working with women’s college and professional basketball data. The package has functions to accesslive play by play and box score data from ESPN with shot locations when available.
A scraping and aggregating interface for ESPN’s women’s college basketball and WNBA 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.
Installation
You can install the CRAN version ofwehoop with:
install.packages("wehoop")You can install the released version ofwehoop fromGitHub 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/wehoop", dependencies=TRUE, update=TRUE)Quick Start
WNBA full play-by-play seasons (2002-2024) ~ 1-2 minutes
tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({wnba_pbp<-wehoop::load_wnba_pbp()})tictoc::toc()Women’s college basketball full play-by-play seasons (2004-2024) ~ 2-3 minutes
tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({wbb_pbp<-wehoop::load_wbb_pbp()})tictoc::toc()Documentation
For more information on the package and function reference, please see thewehoop documentation website.
Our Authors
- Saiem Gilani (@saiemgilani)
- Geoff Hutchinson (@HutchNGo)
Citations
To cite thewehoop R package in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{hutchinson_gilani_2021_wehoop,title = {wehoop: Access Women’s Basketball Play by Play Data},url = {http://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wehoop},DOI = {10.32614/cran.package.wehoop},journal = {CRAN: Contributed Packages},publisher = {The R Foundation},author = {Gilani, Saiem and Hutchinson, Geoffery},year = {2021},month =nov}