load_cfb_recruits: *Load college football recruiting rankings from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load college football recruiting rankings from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads player recruiting rankings – one row per recruit-season with stars, rating, position, and school commitment. Published to the cfb_recruits release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_cfb_recruits(
  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 2002 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2002)
...	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
team_id_247	character
team	character
recruit_id	character
player_name	character
stars	integer
grade	double
position	character

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_cfb_recruits(2002))

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