load_cfb_rosters_crosswalk: *Load college football roster id crosswalk from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load college football roster id crosswalk from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads the roster-level id crosswalk linking CFBD athlete ids to ESPN athlete ids across seasons. Single cumulative file (not season- partitioned). Published to the cfb_crosswalk release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_cfb_rosters_crosswalk(..., dbConnection = NULL, tablename = NULL)

Arguments

...	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
espn_team_id	integer
fox_team_id	character
person_key	character
espn_athlete_id	integer
fox_athlete_id	character
yahoo_athlete_id	character
name	character
espn_jersey	character
fox_jersey	character
espn_position	character
fox_position	character
yahoo_position	character
match_method	character
matched_sources	character

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_cfb_rosters_crosswalk())

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