wbb_team_crosswalk: *Get the WBB cross-source team crosswalk*

In wehoop: Access Women's Basketball Play by Play Data

Get the WBB cross-source team crosswalk

Description

Build a wide, one-row-per-team-per-season crosswalk linking ESPN, Fox Sports (Bifrost), and Bart Torvik (barttorvik.com/ncaaw) women's college basketball team identities, keyed on espn_team_id. Yahoo columns are NA placeholders. ESPN is deduped by team_id (first occurrence kept). Fox is joined on the full normalized mascot name (with a curated alias bridge for cases where Fox and ESPN differ); Torvik is joined on the normalized school/location name after a curated alias pass for common divergences (e.g. "UConn" / "Connecticut", "Ole Miss" / "Mississippi").

Usage

wbb_team_crosswalk(season = most_recent_wbb_season(), fox = NULL)

Arguments

season	Season year (4-digit, e.g. 2025). Defaults to most_recent_wbb_season().
fox	An already-fetched fox_wbb_teams_all() frame, or NULL (default) to fetch live. Accepts a pre-fetched frame to avoid the ~60-second Fox enumeration when calling repeatedly.

Value

A wehoop_data tibble, one row per ESPN team:

col_name	types	description
season	integer	Season year.
espn_team_id	integer	ESPN team id (canonical key).
espn_abbreviation	character	ESPN abbreviation.
espn_display_name	character	ESPN display name (school + mascot).
espn_short_name	character	ESPN short name.
espn_location	character	ESPN school/location only.
espn_mascot	character	ESPN mascot/nickname.
espn_conference	character	ESPN conference name.
fox_team_id	character	Fox Bifrost team id (NA if unmatched).
fox_team_name	character	Fox team name (NA if unmatched).
fox_section	character	Fox conference/section label (NA if unmatched).
bart_team	character	Torvik team name (NA if unmatched).
bart_conf	character	Torvik conference abbreviation (NA if unmatched).
yahoo_team_id	character	Yahoo team id (NA placeholder).
yahoo_team_name	character	Yahoo team name (NA placeholder).
fox_match_confidence	numeric	1 for matched, NA for unmatched.
bart_match_confidence	numeric	1 for matched, NA for unmatched.
match_method	character	"fox+bart"/"fox_only"/"bart_only"/"espn_only".

See Also

Other WBB Crosswalk Functions: load_wnba_team_crosswalk(), wbb_player_crosswalk(), wbb_schedule_crosswalk()

Examples

  try(wbb_team_crosswalk(season = 2025))

wehoop documentation built on Aug. 25, 2026, 1:06 a.m.