most_recent_season {nflreadr}

Get Latest Season

Description

A helper function to choose the most recent season available for a given dataset

Usage

most_recent_season(roster = FALSE)

get_latest_season(roster = FALSE)

get_current_season(roster = FALSE)

Arguments

roster

Either TRUE or FALSE. If TRUE, will return current year after March 15th, otherwise previous year. If FALSE, will return current year on or after Thursday following Labor Day, i.e. Thursday after the first Monday in September. Otherwise previous year.

Value

most recent season (a four digit numeric)

See Also

Other Date utils: get_current_week()