load_player_stats {nflreadr}

Load Player Level Weekly Stats

Description

Load Player Level Weekly Stats

Usage

load_player_stats(
  seasons = most_recent_season(),
  stat_type = c("offense", "defense", "kicking"),
  file_type = getOption("nflreadr.prefer", default = "rds")
)

Arguments

seasons

a numeric vector of seasons to return, defaults to most recent season. If set to TRUE, returns all available data.

stat_type

one of "offense", "defense", or "kicking"

file_type

One of c("rds", "qs", "csv", "parquet"). Can also be set globally with options(nflreadr.prefer)

Value

A tibble of week-level player statistics that aims to match NFL official box scores.

See Also

https://nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/dictionary_player_stats.html for a web version of the data dictionary

dictionary_player_stats for the data dictionary

Issues with this data should be filed here: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-pbp

Examples

try({ # prevents cran errors
  load_player_stats()
  load_player_stats(stat_type = "kicking")
})