cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

A utility to quickly obtain clean and tidy college football data. Serves as a wrapper around the <https://collegefootballdata.com/> API and provides functions to access live play by play and box score data from ESPN <https://www.espn.com> when available. It provides users the capability to access a plethora of endpoints, and supplement that data with additional information (Expected Points Added/Win Probability added).

Package details

AuthorSaiem Gilani [cre, aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7194-9067>), Akshay Easwaran [aut], Jared Lee [aut], Eric Hess [aut], Michael Egle [ctb], Nate Manzo [ctb], Jason DeLoach [ctb], Tej Seth [ctb], Conor McQuiston [ctb], Tan Ho [ctb], Keegan Abdoo [ctb], Matt Spencer [ctb], Sebastian Carl [ctb], John Edwards [ctb], Brad Hill [ctb], cfbfastR authors [cph]
MaintainerSaiem Gilani <saiem.gilani@gmail.com>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version3.0.0
URL https://cfbfastR.sportsdataverse.org/ https://github.com/sportsdataverse/cfbfastR
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("cfbfastR")

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cfbfastR documentation built on Aug. 24, 2026, 5:13 p.m.