NEWS.md

In ncaavolleyballr: Extract Data from NCAA Women's and Men's Volleyball Website

ncaavolleyballr 0.5.1

• The 2025 women's volleyball season has completed, so we have added Division 1 data to the data page. The NCAA is making it very difficult to scrape lots of data at once, so we don't have Divisions 2 or 3 uploaded yet.

• To help with the scraping we have added a delay argument to the group_stats() function (and downstream conference_stats() and division_stats() wrappers) that allows control over the time delay between scraping the next team/contest.

• The output of play-by-play data now has a column counting each rally and each event within a rally to address #20.

ncaavolleyballr 0.5.0

• The 2025 season has begun, and this version has updated the current_season() to 2025 to allow scraping this season's data.

• The package website now includes a data page that includes all data from 2020-2024 as separate files for each sport, data level, division, and year.

• Data output now includes contest ID or team ID columns to facilitate joining datasets.

• Most of NCAA's websites now using JavaScript with loading pages, so most functions now use rvest::read_live_html(). Unfortunately, this has resulted in much slower processing of data, and large-scale scraping triggers IP address bans. When encountering errors, try running the function again or at a later time.

Package development

• Chromote sessions are now closed after scraping data.

• Unit testing is greatly expanded and improved to test the code better.

• Documentation uses inherited notes to simplify documentation changes.

• Air is now used to format code.

ncaavolleyballr 0.4.3

• NCAA's game-by-game website introduced a loading page that disrupted team_season_stats() and team_match_stats(). team_season_stats() now gets the info from a different page. team_match_stats() now uses the rvest::read_live_html() function, which requires the {chromote} package and access to Google Chrome.

• Catch contests with too many sets and return warning instead of error

ncaavolleyballr 0.4.2

• Increase minimum R version to 4.2

• Wrap all URL requests in tryCatch() to ensure internet connection problems fail gracefully.

• Change examples to interactive only and note functions that require internet activity.

• Skip testing on CRAN for tests requiring internet connections.

• Switch vignette to pre-built Rmd file.

ncaavolleyballr 0.4.1

• Remove examples from division_stats() and get_teams() documentation.

• Remove deprecated group_player_stats().

ncaavolleyballr 0.4.0

• Update status to active and lifecycle to stable.

• Create team_season_info(), team_season_stats(), and team_match_stats() functions to output team-related information.

• Create division_stats() and conference_stats() to aggregate season, match, and play-by-play statistics over divisions and conferences.

• Create vignette to help Get Started.

• Update logo.

• Remove duplication of match and play-by-play stats in group_stats().

• Create more descriptive warnings when teams or matches are missing.

• Improve handling of seasons and matches with no data. These cases are skipped with a warning instead of stopping with an error.

• Create suite of functions to check argument input

• Skip all URL request tests on CRAN and CI

ncaavolleyballr 0.3.0

• Improve output of match_pbp() to parse events and players.

• Improve output of find_team_contests() to include record, attendance, and canceled matches.

• Add match and play-by-play levels to group_stats().

• Fix bug in group_stats() when matches are canceled.

• Replace term "visitor" with "away".

• DEPRECATION:

• group_player_stats() has been renamed group_stats().
• conference_player_stats() has been renamed conference_season_stats().
• division_player_stats() has been renamed division_season_stats().

ncaavolleyballr 0.2.0

• Add match-level functions find_team_contests(), player_match_stats(), and test match_pbp() for extracting match/contest IDs, player statistics, and play-by-play information.

• DEPRECATION: team_player_stats() has been renamed player_season_stats().

ncaavolleyballr 0.1.0

• Initial release.

• Add season-level statistics extraction `.

• Add conference, division, and custom group aggregation with conference_player_stats(), division_player_stats(), and group_player_stats()

• Create website and logo.

ncaavolleyballr documentation built on Jan. 8, 2026, 1:07 a.m.