espn_cfb_player_stats_v3: *ESPN College Football Player Stats (web v3, all categories)*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Player Stats (web v3, all categories)

Description

Get a single college football player's web-common-v3 statistics from ESPN – the comprehensive ⁠/athletes/{id}/stats⁠ payload (every category: passing, rushing, receiving, defensive, etc.) in long format (one row per stat). This is the richer "v3" companion to espn_cfb_player_stats() (core-v2 season statistics) and espn_cfb_player_career_stats().

Usage

espn_cfb_player_stats_v3(athlete_id = NULL, year = NULL, athlete_detail = TRUE)

Arguments

athlete_id	(Character/Integer required): ESPN athlete id.
year	(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Minimum value accepted: 2004
athlete_detail	(Logical): when TRUE (default), append the ⁠athlete_*⁠ name columns via one extra athlete fetch.

Value

A data frame with one row per (category x team-season x stat):

col_name	types	description
athlete_id	character	ESPN athlete id.
season	integer	Requested season (4-digit year).
category	character	Stat category key (e.g. passing).
category_display	character	Human-readable category name.
team_id	character	ESPN team id for the stat row.
team_slug	character	Team slug for the stat row.
stat_season	integer	Season of the stat row (per ESPN).
position	character	Player position for the stat row.
stat_name	character	Stat key (from the category names).
stat_label	character	Stat short label (from labels).
stat_display_name	character	Stat display name (from displayNames).
value	character	Stat value (as published).

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_futures(), 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_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_player_stats_v3(athlete_id = 4431611, year = 2023))

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