load_nba_stats_leaguedash: *Load hoopR NBA Stats League Dashboard cube*

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

Load hoopR NBA Stats League Dashboard cube

Description

Loads one asset of the nba_stats_leaguedash release tag – the parameter cube that supersedes the narrower Base-measure tags (load_nba_stats_player_season_stats(), load_nba_stats_team_season_stats(), load_nba_stats_lineups(), load_nba_stats_standings()). The cube publishes 36 tables per season and is the only route to Advanced/Misc/Scoring/Usage/Defense/Opponent/⁠Four Factors⁠ measures, 2/3/4-man lineup groupings, the ⁠*_bio⁠/⁠*_master⁠ wide joins, and player tracking (drives, passing, touches, catch-and-shoot, pull-up shooting, rebounding, speed/distance).

Coverage floors differ by table and are not individually enforced here (only the global 1996 floor is): the ⁠lineups_*⁠ tables start at the 2007-08 season and the ⁠player_tracking_*⁠ tables (other than catchshoot/pullupshot, which go back to 1996) start at the 2013-14 season. Requesting an out-of-range season for those tables 404s gracefully with a warning and contributes no rows, same as any other ⁠nba_stats_*⁠ loader.

Usage

load_nba_stats_leaguedash(
  seasons = most_recent_nba_stats_season(),
  table = NULL,
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons	A vector of 4-digit years – the season's START year (e.g. 2024 for the 2024-25 season). Published coverage runs 1996 through the most recent season for most tables (see Description for per-table floors). Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 1996)
table	Name of the cube table to load. One of player_bio, player_master, player_stats_base, player_stats_advanced, player_stats_misc, player_stats_scoring, player_stats_usage, player_stats_defense, player_tracking_catchshoot, player_tracking_defense, player_tracking_drives, player_tracking_efficiency, player_tracking_elbowtouch, player_tracking_painttouch, player_tracking_passing, player_tracking_possessions, player_tracking_posttouch, player_tracking_pullupshot, player_tracking_rebounding, player_tracking_speeddistance, team_master, team_stats_base, team_stats_advanced, team_stats_misc, team_stats_scoring, team_stats_defense, team_stats_opponent, team_stats_fourfactors, lineups_master, lineups_base, lineups_advanced, lineups_misc, lineups_scoring, lineups_opponent, lineups_fourfactors, standings.
...	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 hoopR_data tibble of the requested cube table, one row per player-season, team-season or lineup-season depending on table. Column sets differ per table (11 to 625 columns); the ⁠*_master⁠ tables are wide joins of every measure type for that entity.

See Also

Other NBA Stats loader functions: load_nba_stats_coaches()

Examples

  try(load_nba_stats_leaguedash(seasons = most_recent_nba_stats_season(),
                                table = "player_bio"))

hoopR documentation built on Aug. 25, 2026, 9:07 a.m.