cfbd_pbp_v2: *CFBD Play-by-Play (v2 Modular EPA/WPA Pipeline) Overview*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

CFBD Play-by-Play (v2 Modular EPA/WPA Pipeline) Overview

Description

• cfbd_pbp_data_v2(): Get college football play-by-play data — modular EPA/WPA pipeline (v2). Thin orchestrator over the shared EPA/WPA engine .run_epa_wpa(), the canonical play-type taxonomy .pbp_play_types(), and the canonical output schema .pbp_output_order. Runs side-by-side with the legacy cfbd_pbp_data() entry point until the equivalence harness proves the new path matches.

Details

The v2 entry point is a thin wrapper around .run_epa_wpa() – the shared engine that powers both the modular (v2) and legacy paths. The output = "default" / "lean" / "full" tier argument selects which intermediate columns survive the final select: "default" drops pipeline lag/lead intermediates and redundant alternates, "lean" additionally drops the per-branch WPA scratchpad, and "full" is the legacy column set (drops only player-name aliases). The equivalence-harness allow-list is intentionally permissive about lag/lead intermediates and per-branch WPA scratchpad columns because those are mechanically rebuildable from the surviving canonical columns; the harness only enforces equality on user-facing values.

Get college football play-by-play data — modular EPA/WPA pipeline (v2)

cfbd_pbp_data_v2(
  year = 2024, week = 1, season_type = "regular",
  epa_wpa = TRUE, output = "default"
)

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