bref_draft: *Basketball-Reference Draft*

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

Basketball-Reference Draft

Description

Get NBA draft results with career stats from Basketball-Reference.

Returns every pick of a draft, paired with the player's career totals and advanced metrics. No API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive scraping (~20 requests/minute) – space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().

Usage

bref_draft(season = most_recent_nba_season())

Arguments

season

(integer required): Draft year (e.g. 2024). Defaults to most_recent_nba_season().

Value

A hoopR_data tibble with one row per draft pick (career columns shown – column names are Basketball-Reference data-stat keys):

col_name	types	description
pick_overall	integer	Overall draft pick number.
round	integer	Draft round.
team	character	Drafting team abbreviation.
player	character	Player name.
college_name	character	College / pre-draft team.
seasons	integer	NBA seasons played.
g	integer	Career games.
pts	numeric	Career points.
trb	numeric	Career total rebounds.
ast	numeric	Career assists.
ws	numeric	Career win shares.
bpm	numeric	Career box plus/minus.
vorp	numeric	Career value over replacement player.
season	integer	Draft year (echoes the season argument).

See Also

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

Examples

  try(bref_draft(season = 2024))

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