espn_cfb_standings: *ESPN College Football Standings (Long Format)*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Standings (Long Format)

Description

Get ESPN's standings for a college football group – the full set of record splits (overall, home, away, conference, ...) and every standings statistic (wins, losses, point differential, streak, ...) for every team in the group.

Usage

espn_cfb_standings(
  year = NULL,
  group_id = 90,
  season_type = 2,
  team_detail = TRUE
)

Arguments

year	(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Minimum value accepted: 2001
group_id	(Integer default 90): ESPN group id. 90 = NCAA Division I (all D-I teams). Conference group ids also work.
season_type	(Integer default 2): ESPN season type id. 2 = regular season.
team_detail	(Logical): when TRUE (default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to the team_id column (see Details). Set FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/{season_type}/groups/{group_id}/standings. The standings resource nests three levels deep – team -> record split -> statistic – so this wrapper returns long format: one row per (team x record split x statistic). The long shape absorbs ESPN's habit of adding standings stats across seasons. Pivot wider keyed on stat_name (within a record_type) when a wide table is wanted.

group_id = 90 (NCAA Division I) is the sensible default and yields every D-I team in one call. Conference-level group_ids – enumerate them with espn_cfb_groups() – restrict the table to that conference.

When team_detail = TRUE (the default) the ESPN team catalog (espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined in next to the team_id column – team_name, team_abbreviation, team_location, team_display_name, team_short_display_name, team_nickname, team_color, team_alternate_color, team_logo_href, and team_logo_dark_href, inserted immediately after team_id. A catalog failure degrades to NA rather than erroring the wrapper. Set team_detail = FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.

Value

A data frame with one row per team-record-statistic:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season (4-digit year).
season_type	integer	ESPN season type id queried.
group_id	character	ESPN group id queried.
team_id	character	ESPN team id (parsed from team_ref).
team_name	character	Team nickname; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_abbreviation	character	Team abbreviation; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_location	character	Team location / school name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_display_name	character	Full team display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_short_display_name	character	Short team display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_nickname	character	Team nickname label; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_color	character	Primary team color; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_alternate_color	character	Alternate team color; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_logo_href	character	Default team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_logo_dark_href	character	Dark-variant team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
record_type	character	Record split type code (e.g. total, homerecord).
record_name	character	Record split name (e.g. Overall, Home).
record_summary	character	Record split summary (e.g. 14-0).
stat_name	character	Standings statistic key (e.g. wins, streak).
abbreviation	character	Statistic abbreviation.
display_name	character	Human-readable statistic name.
value	numeric	Statistic value.
display_value	character	Display-formatted statistic value.
team_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the per-season team resource.

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_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_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_standings(year = 2024))
  try(espn_cfb_standings(year = 2024, team_detail = FALSE))

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