load_espn_cfb_receiving: *Load college football receiving EPA splits from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load college football receiving EPA splits from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads season-level receiving EPA splits – one row per team with target, catch, and yards-after-catch aggregates. Published to the espn_cfb_receiving release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_espn_cfb_receiving(
  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
team_id	integer
pos_team	character
division	character
conference	character
season	integer
player_id	integer
receiver_player_name	character	Display name of the targeted receiver -- the FIRST participant in that role on the play.
plays	integer
games	integer
team_games	integer	Games the team played, used as the per-game denominator.
TEPA	double	Total EPA summed over every play.
EPAplay	double	EPA generated per play.
yards	integer
success	double	Success rate across the team plays.
comp	integer	Completed passes.
targets	integer
passing_td	double
fumbles	double	Count of the receiver's targeted pass plays across the season whose play text mentions a fumble by either team.
playsgame	double	Plays per game.
EPAgame	double	EPA generated per game.
yardsplay	double	Yards per play.
yardsgame	double	Yards per game.
catchpct	double	Catch rate on a 0-to-1 scale, receptions divided by targets for the season.
TEPA_rank	double	National rank of the team's total EPA summed over every play, where 1 is best.
EPAgame_rank	double	National rank of the team's EPA generated per game, where 1 is best.
EPAplay_rank	double	National rank of the team's EPA generated per play, where 1 is best.
success_rank	double	National rank of the team's success rate across the team plays, where 1 is best.
catchpct_rank	double	Season rank of catchpct with the best catch rate first, computed only for receivers clearing the leaderboard minimum of 1.875 targets per team game and using averaged ranks for ties.
yards_rank	double	National rank of the team's total yards, where 1 is best.
yardsplay_rank	double	National rank of the team's yards per play, where 1 is best.
yardsgame_rank	double	National rank of the team's yards per game, where 1 is best.
fbs_class	character	Power/Group classification for the season: P4 or G6 from 2024 on, P5 or G5 through 2023, derived from conference membership. Null for teams outside FBS.

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_espn_cfb_receiving(2004))

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