load_ncaa_mfb_rosters: *Load NCAA men's football rosters (stats.ncaa.org) from the...

In cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

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

Description

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

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_rosters(
  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
team_id	character
team_name	character
player_id	character
player_name	character
jersey	character
statcrew_jersey	character
player_class	character
position	character
height	character
weight	integer
hometown	character
high_school	character
games_played	integer
games_started	integer
academic_year	integer
season	integer

Author(s)

Saiem Gilani

Examples

  try(load_ncaa_mfb_rosters(2013))

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