load_espn_cfb_adv_team: *Load college football advanced team from the SportsDataverse...

View source: R/load_espn_cfb.R

load_espn_cfb_adv_teamR Documentation

Load college football advanced team from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads season-level advanced team stats – one row per team with the offense/defense EPA, success, explosiveness, and havoc profile. Published to the espn_cfb_adv_team release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_espn_cfb_adv_team(
  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
pos_team_id integer ESPN team id of the team on offense. Present for every season 2004+.
pos_team character
rushing_highlight_yards_per_opp double Highlight yards per rushing opportunity.
total_pen_yards integer Total penalty yards assessed.
EPA_penalty double Total EPA attributed to penalties.
penalty_first_downs_created integer Number of first downs the team gained via opponent penalty.
penalty_first_downs_created_rate double Share of the team's first downs that came via opponent penalty.
penalties integer Number of penalties assessed against the team.
penalty_yards integer Net penalty yardage assessed against the team; can be negative when enforcement moved the team forward on balance.
special_teams_plays integer Number of special-teams plays.
EPA_sp double Total special-teams EPA, ESPN's abbreviated field for the same phase.
EPA_special_teams double Total EPA generated on special-teams plays.
field_goals integer Number of field-goal attempts.
EPA_fg double Total EPA on field-goal attempts.
punt_plays integer Number of punt plays.
EPA_punt double Total EPA on punt plays.
kickoff_plays integer Number of kickoff plays.
EPA_kickoff double Total EPA on kickoff plays.
rushes integer Number of rushing attempts.
rush_yards double Total yards the team gained on rush plays.
yards_per_rush double Yards gained per rushing attempt.
rushing_power_rate double Share of carries that were power rushing attempts.
rushing_first_downs_created integer Number of first downs created on rush plays.
rushing_first_downs_created_rate double Share of rush plays that created a first down.
EPA_rushing_overall double Total EPA on rush plays.
EPA_rushing_per_play double EPA per rush play.
EPA_explosive_rushing integer Count of explosive rush plays. A play count, not an EPA total.
EPA_explosive_rushing_rate double Explosive-play rate on rush plays, over ESPN's qualifying-play denominator.
EPA_non_explosive_rushing double Total EPA on rush plays with explosive plays excluded.
EPA_non_explosive_rushing_per_play double EPA per rush play with explosive plays excluded.
passes integer Number of pass plays the team ran.
pass_yards double Total yards the team gained on pass plays.
yards_per_pass double
passing_first_downs_created integer Number of first downs created on pass plays.
passing_first_downs_created_rate double Share of pass plays that created a first down.
EPA_passing_overall double Total EPA on pass plays.
EPA_passing_per_play double EPA per pass play.
EPA_explosive_passing integer Count of explosive pass plays. A play count, not an EPA total.
EPA_explosive_passing_rate double Explosive-play rate on pass plays, over ESPN's qualifying-play denominator.
EPA_non_explosive_passing double Total EPA on pass plays with explosive plays excluded.
EPA_non_explosive_passing_per_play double EPA per pass play with explosive plays excluded.
scrimmage_plays integer Number of plays from scrimmage (rushes plus passes), excluding special teams.
EPA_overall_off double Total offensive EPA for the team. Duplicated exactly by EPA_overall_offense in every published season checked -- prefer one and ignore the other.
EPA_overall_offense double Total offensive EPA. An exact duplicate of EPA_overall_off.
EPA_per_play double Offensive EPA per play.
EPA_non_explosive double Total EPA with explosive plays excluded, isolating the team's routine-down production.
EPA_non_explosive_per_play double EPA per play with explosive plays excluded.
EPA_explosive integer Count of explosive plays, per ESPN's advanced box score. Despite the EPA_ prefix this is a play COUNT, not an EPA total.
EPA_explosive_rate double Explosive-play rate. Note this is NOT EPA_explosive divided by EPA_plays -- ESPN divides by its own smaller qualifying-play count, so deriving it yourself will not reproduce this value.
passes_rate double Share of the team's plays from scrimmage that were pass plays.
off_yards integer Offensive yards gained from scrimmage.
total_off_yards integer Total offensive yards across all plays.
yards_per_play double Yards gained per play.
EPA_plays integer Number of plays ESPN's advanced box score scored for the team.
total_yards integer Total yards the team gained across all plays.
EPA_overall_total double Total EPA across all phases, which is why it differs from the offense-only EPA_overall_off.
rushes_rate double Share of the team's plays from scrimmage that were rush plays.
first_downs_created integer Number of first downs the team created.
first_downs_created_rate double Share of the team's plays that created a first down.
EPA_rushing_power double Total EPA on power rushing situations, as classified by ESPN's advanced box score.
EPA_rushing_power_per_play double EPA per play on power rushing situations.
rushing_power_success integer Count of power rushing attempts that gained the yardage needed. An integer count, not a rate -- the rate is published separately as rushing_power_success_rate.
rushing_power_success_rate double Share of power rushing attempts that succeeded.
rushing_power integer Count of power rushing attempts, in short-yardage situations as classified by ESPN's advanced box score.
rushing_stuff integer Count of stuffed rushing attempts.
rushing_stuff_rate double Share of the team's carries that were stuffed at or behind the line of scrimmage.
rushing_stopped integer Count of rushing attempts stopped at or behind the line of scrimmage.
rushing_stopped_rate double Share of carries stopped at or behind the line of scrimmage.
rushing_opportunity integer Count of rushing opportunities -- carries that reached ESPN's opportunity threshold.
rushing_opportunity_rate double Share of carries that qualified as rushing opportunities.
rushing_highlight integer Highlight yards -- rushing yardage credited to the back rather than the offensive line.
rushing_highlight_rate double Share of rushing yardage that was highlight (back-credited) yardage.
rushing_highlight_yards double Total highlight yards the team accumulated -- the yardage credited to ball carriers rather than the line. The per-carry figure is rushing_highlight_yards_per_opp.
line_yards double Line yards -- the portion of rushing yardage credited to the offensive line under the standard rushing decomposition. ESPN applies its own qualifying threshold for the yardage split.
line_yards_per_carry double Line yards per rushing attempt.
second_level_yards double Second-level yards -- rushing yardage earned just beyond the line of scrimmage.
open_field_yards double Open-field yards -- rushing yardage earned well downfield, past the second level.
game_id integer
season integer
week integer

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples


  try(load_espn_cfb_adv_team(2004))


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