espn_cfb_team_awards: *ESPN College Football Team Awards*

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

ESPN College Football Team Awards

Description

Get the awards won by a college football team's players in a season – one row per (award x winning athlete).

Usage

espn_cfb_team_awards(team_id = NULL, year = NULL, team_detail = TRUE)

Arguments

team_id	(Integer required): ESPN team id.
year	(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Minimum value accepted: 1935
team_detail	(Logical): when TRUE (default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to every team-id column (team_id, winner_team_id) in the output (see Details). Set FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join.

Details

Wraps the ESPN core-v2 team awards endpoint sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/teams/{team_id}/awards. The index endpoint returns a ⁠$ref⁠ list of award resources; this wrapper dereferences each one and returns a row per winning athlete for the award. Athletes are returned as ESPN athlete ids (parsed from athlete_ref); join to another athlete source for names. Most teams have only one or two award items in a season.

When team_detail = TRUE (the default) the ESPN team catalog (espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined onto every team-id column the output carries – team_id and winner_team_id. For each id column X_id the friendly siblings X_name, X_abbreviation, X_location, X_display_name, X_short_display_name, X_nickname, X_color, X_alternate_color, X_logo_href, and X_logo_dark_href are inserted immediately after it. 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 award-winner:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season (4-digit year).
team_id	character	ESPN team id.
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.
award_id	character	ESPN award id.
award_name	character	Award display name (e.g. ⁠John Mackey Award⁠).
award_description	character	Short description of the award.
athlete_id	character	ESPN athlete id of the winner (parsed from athlete_ref).
winner_team_id	character	ESPN team id credited with the win (parsed from winner_team_ref).
winner_team_name	character	Winner team nickname; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_abbreviation	character	Winner team abbreviation; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_location	character	Winner team location / school; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_display_name	character	Winner team full display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_short_display_name	character	Winner team short display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_nickname	character	Winner team nickname label; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_color	character	Winner team primary color; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_alternate_color	character	Winner team alternate color; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_logo_href	character	Winner team default logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
winner_team_logo_dark_href	character	Winner team dark logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
award_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the core-v2 award resource.
athlete_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the winning athlete-in-season resource.
winner_team_ref	character	⁠$ref⁠ URL to the winner's team-in-season 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_standings(), espn_cfb_team(), espn_cfb_team_ats(), 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_team_awards(team_id = 61, year = 2023))
  try(espn_cfb_team_awards(team_id = 61, year = 2023,
                           team_detail = FALSE))

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