gc_play_by_play: Access the GameCenter (GC) play-by-play for a game

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Access the GameCenter (GC) play-by-play for a game

Description

gc_play_by_play() retrieves the GameCenter (GC) play-by-play for a game as a data.frame where each row represents an event. The returned schema is the cleaned, public-facing play-by-play schema, including canonical names such as periodNumber, eventTypeCode, eventTypeDescKey, homeShots, shotsFor, penaltyTypeDescKey, penaltyDuration, servedByPlayerId, goalieInNetId, and HTML-report-derived on-ice player ID columns such as homeGoaliePlayerId, awayGoaliePlayerId, homeSkater1PlayerId, and any additional overflow skater slots required by the game. HTML report skater and goalie IDs are returned whenever they can be matched back to a supported row, even when the raw situationCode is stale. Use add_shift_times() with shift_chart() (or shift_charts()) to add on-ice shift timing columns.

Usage

gc_play_by_play(game = 2023030417)

gc_pbp(game = 2023030417)

Arguments

game	integer ID (e.g., 2025020275); see games() for reference

Value

data.frame with one row per event (play)

Examples

# May take >5s, so skip.
gc_pbp_Martin_Necas_legacy_game <- gc_play_by_play(game = 2025020275)

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