espn_cfb_futures: *ESPN College Football Betting Futures (Long Format)*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Betting Futures (Long Format)

Description

Get ESPN's full futures-betting board for a college football season – national championship, conference, and award markets with the American odds each sportsbook is offering on every team or player.

Usage

espn_cfb_futures(year = NULL)

Arguments

year	(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Minimum value accepted: 2014

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/futures. The season index returns one ⁠$ref⁠ per futures market; this wrapper dereferences each market and flattens the nested market -> provider -> books tree into long format: one row per (market x provider x entry). Most markets are team markets (national championship, conference winners) and populate team_id; player markets (e.g. the Heisman) populate athlete_id instead, with the other id column left NA. odds_value is the raw American-odds string ESPN returns (e.g. -400, +150).

Value

A data frame with one row per market-provider-entry:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season (4-digit year).
market_id	character	ESPN futures-market identifier.
market_name	character	Internal market name (e.g. NCAA(F) - Championship).
market_type	character	Market type code (e.g. winLeague).
market_display	character	Human-readable market name (e.g. ⁠National Championship Winner⁠).
provider_id	character	Sportsbook / provider identifier.
provider_name	character	Sportsbook / provider name (e.g. ⁠ESPN BET⁠).
team_id	character	ESPN team id (parsed from team_ref); NA for player markets.
athlete_id	character	ESPN athlete id (parsed from athlete_ref); NA for team markets.
odds_value	character	American odds for the entry (e.g. -400, +150).
team_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the per-season team resource (may be NA).
athlete_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the per-season athlete resource (may be NA).

See Also

Other ESPN CFB Functions: espn_cfb_award(), espn_cfb_awards(), espn_cfb_clear_cache(), espn_cfb_coach(), espn_cfb_coach_record(), espn_cfb_coaches(), espn_cfb_franchise(), espn_cfb_franchises(), espn_cfb_game_broadcasts(), espn_cfb_game_drive_plays(), espn_cfb_game_drives(), espn_cfb_game_leaders(), espn_cfb_game_odds(), espn_cfb_game_pbp(), espn_cfb_game_play(), espn_cfb_game_player_box(), espn_cfb_game_player_statistics(), espn_cfb_game_powerindex(), espn_cfb_game_predictor(), espn_cfb_game_probabilities(), espn_cfb_game_situation(), espn_cfb_game_status(), espn_cfb_game_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_game_team_linescores(), espn_cfb_game_team_records(), espn_cfb_game_team_roster(), espn_cfb_game_team_statistics(), espn_cfb_game_teams(), espn_cfb_groups(), espn_cfb_pbp_v2(), espn_cfb_player(), espn_cfb_player_career_stats(), espn_cfb_player_eventlog(), espn_cfb_player_gamelog(), espn_cfb_player_overview(), espn_cfb_player_seasons(), espn_cfb_player_splits(), espn_cfb_player_stats_v3(), espn_cfb_players(), espn_cfb_position(), espn_cfb_positions(), espn_cfb_powerindex(), espn_cfb_qbr(), espn_cfb_rankings(), espn_cfb_recruits(), espn_cfb_season_info(), espn_cfb_season_types(), espn_cfb_season_weeks(), espn_cfb_seasons(), espn_cfb_standings(), espn_cfb_team(), espn_cfb_team_ats(), espn_cfb_team_awards(), espn_cfb_team_coaches(), espn_cfb_team_events(), espn_cfb_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_team_powerindex(), espn_cfb_team_ranks(), espn_cfb_team_record(), espn_cfb_team_roster(), espn_cfb_team_schedule(), espn_cfb_teams(), espn_cfb_unnest_plays(), espn_cfb_venue(), espn_cfb_venues(), espn_cfb_week_rankings()

Examples

  try(espn_cfb_futures(year = 2024))

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