espn_basketball: *ESPN Basketball Endpoint Overview (WNBA + WBB)*

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ESPN Basketball Endpoint Overview (WNBA + WBB)

Description

Wrappers around ESPN's basketball endpoints. Two parallel families share a common set of internal helpers in R/espn_basketball_*.R:

• ⁠espn_wnba_*()⁠ — ESPN WNBA wrappers

• ⁠espn_wbb_*()⁠ — ESPN women's college basketball wrappers

Each public wrapper is a thin shim over an internal helper that takes a league argument ("wnba" or "womens-college-basketball"); the helper does the actual HTTP call + parsing. Error reporting flows through ESPN-side reporters .report_api_error() / .report_api_warning() in R/utils.R (do not use raw cli::cli_alert_danger() here — that is the WNBA Stats convention).

Details

Play-by-play, scoreboard, schedule

WNBA function	WBB function
espn_wnba_pbp()	espn_wbb_pbp()
espn_wnba_scoreboard()	espn_wbb_scoreboard()
espn_wnba_game_all()	espn_wbb_game_all()
espn_wnba_game_rosters()	espn_wbb_game_rosters()
espn_wnba_player_box()	espn_wbb_player_box()
espn_wnba_team_box()	espn_wbb_team_box()

Reference data

WNBA function	WBB function
espn_wnba_teams()	espn_wbb_teams()
espn_wnba_standings()	espn_wbb_standings()
espn_wnba_player_stats()	espn_wbb_player_stats()
espn_wnba_team_stats()	espn_wbb_team_stats()
	espn_wbb_conferences()
	espn_wbb_rankings()

HTTP layer

ESPN wrappers call .retry_request() directly without ..., so per-call proxy overrides aren't supported. Use options(wehoop.proxy = ...) or the http_proxy / https_proxy env vars for proxy routing.

See Also

Other ESPN Basketball: espn_basketball_player_core()

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