load_cfb_ratings_weekly: *Load college football weekly power ratings from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load college football weekly power ratings from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads weekly team power ratings – one row per team-week, the as-of- week snapshots behind the season-end ratings. Published to the cfb_ratings_weekly release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_cfb_ratings_weekly(
  seasons = most_recent_cfb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons	A vector of 4-digit years associated with given college football seasons. Published coverage runs 2004 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2004)
...	Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database.
dbConnection	A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()
tablename	The name of the data table within the database

Value

Returns a cfbfastR_data tibble.

col_name	types	description
season	integer
team_id	integer
adj_off_epa	double	Opponent-adjusted offensive EPA per play as of the snapshot week: raw per-game EPA on pass and rush plays net of each opponent's ridge-fitted defensive strength.
adj_def_epa	double	Opponent-adjusted EPA per play allowed as of the snapshot week, netted the same way as the offensive rating, so lower is better.
adj_st_epa	double	Special-teams composite in EPA units as of the snapshot week, summing the league-centered per-play EPA of the field goal, punt, and kick-return units.
adj_net	double	adj_off_epa minus adj_def_epa at the snapshot week, the team's overall efficiency rating in EPA per play with special teams excluded.
fei_off	double	Drive-level offensive rating at the snapshot week, from a ridge fit on per-drive EPA.
fei_def	double	Drive-level defensive rating at the snapshot week, from the same per-drive ridge fit and on the same scale as fei_off.
fei_net	double	fei_off minus fei_def at the snapshot week, the team's overall drive-efficiency rating.
games	integer
off_pace	double	Scrimmage plays per game through the snapshot week, the tempo input consumed by the totals model.
off_rank	integer	Dense rank of adj_off_epa in descending order within the snapshot week, so rank 1 is the most efficient offense at that point.
def_rank	integer	Dense rank of adj_def_epa in ascending order within the snapshot week, so rank 1 is the stingiest defense at that point.
net_rank	integer	Dense rank of adj_net in descending order within the snapshot week, so rank 1 is the strongest overall team at that point.
net_z	double	adj_net restated as a z-score against the mean and standard deviation of adj_net across the teams rated in that snapshot week.
through_week	integer	Regular-season week the snapshot runs through; the ratings were refit using only games kicking off on or before that week's final kickoff date.

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_cfb_ratings_weekly(2004))

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