bref_awards: *Basketball-Reference Awards Voting*

In hoopR: Access Men's Basketball Play by Play Data

Basketball-Reference Awards Voting

Description

Get end-of-season award voting from Basketball-Reference.

Returns the voting results for the major end-of-season awards (MVP, Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man, Most Improved, Clutch Player, Coach of the Year) in one tidy tibble, one row per candidate per award. No API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive scraping (~20 requests/minute) – space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().

Usage

bref_awards(season = most_recent_nba_season())

Arguments

season

(integer required): Season, in 4-digit ending-year format (e.g. 2024). Defaults to most_recent_nba_season().

Value

A hoopR_data tibble with one row per award candidate:

col_name	types	description
award	character	Award slug (mvp, roy, dpoy, smoy, mip, clutch_poy, coy).
rank	integer	Finish in the voting.
player	character	Player (or coach) name.
age	integer	Age.
team	character	Team abbreviation.
votes_first	numeric	First-place votes.
points_won	numeric	Voting points won.
points_max	numeric	Maximum possible voting points.
award_share	numeric	Share of the maximum voting points.
season	integer	Season (echoes the season argument).

See Also

Other Basketball-Reference Functions: bref_draft(), bref_injuries(), bref_player_bios(), bref_player_game_log(), bref_players_stats(), bref_standings(), bref_team_roster(), bref_teams_stats()

Examples

  try(bref_awards(season = 2024))

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