wnba_player_crosswalk: *Get the WNBA cross-source player crosswalk*

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

Get the WNBA cross-source player crosswalk

Description

Build a wide, one-row-per-player-per-team crosswalk linking ESPN, WNBA Stats, and Fox player identities for a season. Matching is deterministic: normalized exact name within a team block, then Jaro-Winkler fuzzy with jersey/DOB tiebreakers. Yahoo columns are NA placeholders.

Usage

wnba_player_crosswalk(
  season = most_recent_wnba_season(),
  min_confidence = 0.92
)

Arguments

season	Season year (numeric). Defaults to the most recent WNBA season.
min_confidence	Jaro-Winkler similarity floor for fuzzy matches (default 0.92).

Value

A wehoop_data tibble, one row per player per team (ESPN-anchored).

See Also

Other WNBA Crosswalk Functions: load_wnba_team_crosswalk(), wnba_schedule_crosswalk(), wnba_team_crosswalk()

Examples

  try(wnba_player_crosswalk(season = 2024))

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