load_espn_cfb_rushing: *Load college football rushing EPA splits from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load college football rushing EPA splits from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads season-level rushing EPA splits – one row per team (offense and defense views) with rush EPA, success, line yards, and stuff-rate aggregates. Published to the espn_cfb_rushing release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_espn_cfb_rushing(
  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
rusher_player_name	character	Display name of the ball carrier on a rush -- 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.
rushing_td	double
fumbles	double	Count of the ball carrier's rush attempts 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.
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.
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_rushing(2004))

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