clean_player_names {nflreadr}

Create Player Merge Names

Description

Applies some name-cleaning heuristics to facilitate joins. These heuristics may include:

• removing periods and apostrophes

• removing common suffixes, such as Jr, Sr, II, III, IV

• converting to lowercase

• using ffscrapr::dp_name_mapping to do common name substitutions, such as Mitch Trubisky to Mitchell Trubisky

Usage

clean_player_names(
  player_name,
  lowercase = FALSE,
  convert_lastfirst = TRUE,
  use_name_database = TRUE,
  convert_to_ascii = rlang::is_installed("stringi")
)

Arguments

player_name

a character vector of player names

lowercase

defaults to FALSE - if TRUE, converts to lowercase

convert_lastfirst

defaults to TRUE - converts names from "Last, First" to "First Last"

use_name_database

uses internal name database to do common substitutions (Mitchell Trubisky to Mitch Trubisky etc)

convert_to_ascii

If TRUE, will transliterate to latin-ascii via the stringi package. Defaults to TRUE if the stringi package is installed.

Details

Equivalent to the operation done by ffscrapr::dp_clean_names() and uses the same player name database.

Value

a character vector of cleaned names

Examples

clean_player_names(c("A.J. Green", "Odell Beckham Jr.  ", "Le'Veon Bell Sr."))

clean_player_names(c("Trubisky,      Mitch", "Atwell, Chatarius", "Elliott, Zeke", "Elijah Moore"),
                  convert_lastfirst = TRUE)