GetHeatmapCoords: Get the heatmap coordinates for certain events in the...

In nhlscrape: Scrapes the 'NHL' API for Statistical Analysis

Description

This function will take in a team_id and a list of game_ids, and a list of events to looks for, and resturn a list of x, y coordinates, transformed to be attacking zone on the left of the rink, and defending zone on the right of the rink. Some anomalies due to how the NHL tracks positions

Usage

GetHeatmapCoords(team_id, gids, events_list)

Arguments

team_id	Int, id of the team to transfrom for
gids	Int, list of game ids to check for events
events_list	Character, string of events to select from the database Note that events must be quoted in single quotes inside the string

Value

List, containing all x, y pairs for events and additional metadata

Examples

SetDbPath(example = TRUE)
GetHeatmapCoords(10, 2019020001, "'Shot', 'Goal'")

nhlscrape documentation built on March 26, 2020, 5:29 p.m.