fetch_player_details: Fetch Player Details

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Fetch Player Details

Description

fetch_player_details returns player details such as date of birth, debut and other details. The exact details that are returned will depend on which source is provided.

By default the source used will be the official AFL website.

fetch_player_details_afl(), fetch_player_details_afltables() and fetch_player_details_footywire() can be called directly and return data from the AFL website, AFL Tables and Footywire respectively.

The function will typically be used to return the current team lists. For historical data, you can use the current argument set to FALSE. This will return all historical data for AFL.com and Footywire data. AFLTables data will always return historical data.

Usage

fetch_player_details(
  team = NULL,
  current = TRUE,
  comp = "AFLM",
  source = "AFL",
  ...
)

fetch_player_details_afl(
  season,
  team = NULL,
  comp = "AFLM",
  official_teams = FALSE
)

fetch_player_details_afltables(team = NULL)

fetch_player_details_footywire(team, current = TRUE)

Arguments

team	team the player played for in the season for, defaults to NULL which returns all teams
current	logical, return the current team list for the current calendar year or all historical data
comp	One of "AFLM" (default) or "AFLW"
source	One of "AFL" (default), "footywire", "afltables"
...	Optional parameters passed onto various functions depending on source.
season	Season in YYYY format
official_teams	boolean, defaults to FALSE. Indicates if we should match team to the official list from the API. If this is TRUE, it will use the list from the API and uou can use fetch_teams_afl to see what these names should be

Value

A Tibble with the details of the relevant players.

See Also

• fetch_player_details_afl for AFL.com data.

• fetch_player_details_footywire for Footywire data.

• fetch_player_details_footywire for AFL Tables data.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Return data for current Hawthorn players
fetch_player_details("Hawthorn")
fetch_player_details("Adelaide", current = FALSE, comp = "AFLW")
fetch_player_details("GWS", current = TRUE, csource = "footywire")

## End(Not run)

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