load_wbb_pbp {wehoop}

Load wehoop women's college basketball play-by-play

Description

helper that loads multiple seasons from the data repo either into memory or writes it into a db using some forwarded arguments in the dots

Usage

load_wbb_pbp(
  seasons = most_recent_wbb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given women's college basketball seasons. (Min: 2004)

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database (used by update_wbb_db()).

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()

tablename

The name of the play by play data table within the database

Value

A dataframe with 55 columns:

shooting_play

Logical value (TRUE/FALSE) indicating whether the play was a shooting play

sequence_number

Sequence number is supposed to represent a shot-possession, examine the last two numbers to see if there are multiple events that occur within the same shot-possession. A shot-possession is basically any sequence of plays until there is a shot, change in possession, and probably things like technical fouls and the like. So as soon as a shot goes up, a new sequence starts regardless, even if the shooting team retains possession via offensive or deadball rebound. The first portion of the number is usually time related (i.e. the numeric representation of when the sequence started, from a seconds remaining in the period perspective or so)

period_display_value

Long form of period (1st quarter, 2nd Quarter, OT, etc.)

period_number

The numeric period of play in the game

home_score

Home score at the time of the play

scoring_play

Logical value (TRUE/FALSE) indicating whether the play was a play on which the offense scored

clock_display_value

Time left within the period

team_id

Unique team identification number for the offensive team

type_id

Unique play type identifcation number

type_text

Play type text description

away_score

Away score at the time of the play

id

Unique play identifcation number

text

Text description of the play

score_value

The points value of the shot taken

participants_0_athlete_id

Unique player identification number

participants_1_athlete_id

Unique player identification number

season

Season of the game

season_type

Season type of the game, 1 is pre-season, 2 is regular season, 3 is post-season, 4 is off-season

away_team_id

Unique away team identification number

away_team_name

Away team name

away_team_mascot

Away team mascot

away_team_abbrev

Text abbreviation for the away team

away_team_name_alt

Alternate versions of the away team abbreviation

home_team_id

Unique home team identification number

home_team_name

home team name

home_team_mascot

home team mascot

home_team_abbrev

Text abbreviation for the home team

home_team_name_alt

Alternate versions of the home team abbreviation

home_team_spread

The game spread with respect to the home team

game_spread

Game spread in (-X Team) format

home_favorite

Logical (TRUE/FALSE) indicating whether the home team is favored

game_spread_available

Logical (TRUE/FALSE) indicating whether the spread was available from ESPN. Basically, I would just not recommend using any of the spread information, I think I defaulted a lot of them to -2.5 for the home team. Most games probably do not have spread information. This column should really be listed first

game_id

Unique identifier for the game event

qtr

Quarter of the game

time

Time left within the period

clock_minutes

Clock minutes split from seconds for developer convenience

clock_seconds

Clock seconds split from minutes for developer convenience

half

Half of the game

game_half

Half of the game

lag_qtr

A lag column on the quarter

lead_qtr

A lead column on the quarter

lag_game_half

A lag column on the half

lead_game_half

A lead column on the half

start_quarter_seconds_remaining

Quarter seconds remaining at the start of the play (these are more or less code artifacts from other sports, but may eventually be used more seriously)

start_half_seconds_remaining

Game half seconds remaining at the start of the play (these are more or less code artifacts from other sports, but may eventually be used more seriously)

start_game_seconds_remaining

Game seconds remaining at the start of the play (”')

game_play_number

Game play number

end_quarter_seconds_remaining

Quarter seconds remaining at the end of the play (”')

end_half_seconds_remaining

Game half seconds remaining at the end of the play (”')

end_game_seconds_remaining

Game seconds remaining at the end of the play (”')

period

Period of the game

coordinate_x

The entire scale is a rectangle of size 25x47, intended as a half-court representation of the basketball court (i.e. on the side of the offense), with each coordinate unit representing a foot. It appears that the basket is roughly represented as the (25, 0) point. This is a nonsensical definition when considering that the basket overhangs the court, with the backboard aligned 48 inches from the baseline, then the center of the hoop being roughly 11 inches from there. This is an idiosyncracy of either sensor placement or software and data entry. Use your best judgement in making your charts, I think you will find that making some translations will be helpful.

coordinate_y

week

Apparently there are weeks

media_id

Where did you come from

Examples

  try(load_wbb_pbp())