load_ncaa_mfb_linescore: *Load NCAA men's football linescores (stats.ncaa.org) from...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

Load NCAA men's football linescores (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data repo

Description

Loads season-level NCAA men's football period linescores parsed from stats.ncaa.org; one row per team-period. Published to the ncaa_mfb_linescore release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_linescore(
  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 2013 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2013)
...	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
contest_id	character
team	character
home_away	character
period	character
points	integer
final	integer
game_date	character
venue	character
attendance	integer
espn_game_id	character
season	integer

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_ncaa_mfb_linescore(2013))

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