load_pfr_advstats: Load Advanced Stats from PFR

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Load Advanced Stats from PFR

Description

Loads player level season stats provided by Pro Football Reference starting with the 2018 season, primarily to augment existing nflverse data.

Usage

load_pfr_advstats(
  seasons = most_recent_season(),
  stat_type = c("pass", "rush", "rec", "def"),
  summary_level = c("week", "season"),
  file_type = getOption("nflreadr.prefer", default = "rds")
)

Arguments

seasons	a numeric vector specifying what seasons to return, if TRUE returns all available data
stat_type	one of "pass", "rush", "rec", "def"
summary_level	one of "week" (default) or "season" - some data is only available at the season level
file_type	One of c("rds", "qs", "csv", "parquet"). Can also be set globally with options(nflreadr.prefer)

Value

A tibble of player statistics provided by Pro Football Reference that supplements data in nflverse

See Also

https://nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/dictionary_pfr_passing.html for the web data dictionary

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2021/passing_advanced.htm

Issues with this data should be filed here: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data

Examples

try({ # prevents cran errors
  load_pfr_advstats()
})

nflreadr documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 5:57 p.m.