get_general: Download general data for Players and Teams

In PatrickChodowski/NBAr: Get NBA data to R faster and easier than ever before!

Description

Download and process NBA.com general data from http://stats.nba.com/players/traditional/, http://stats.nba.com/teams/advanced/ etc.

Usage

get_general(
  season,
  type,
  measure_type,
  per_mode = "PerGame",
  season_type = "Regular+Season",
  season_segment = "",
  game_segment = "",
  date_from = "",
  date_to = "",
  outcome = "",
  period = "0",
  opponent_team_id = "0",
  team_id = "0",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

season	Number of the year in which season started
type	Specify if data is for Team or Player c("Player,"Team")
measure_type	Specify which statistics group you want to download. c("Base","Advanced","Misc","Scoring","Usage","Opponent","Defense", "Four+Factors")
per_mode	Specify if you want data divided per game or totals. Default parameter is "PerGame". c("PerGame","Totals")
season_type	Choose data for preseason, regular season or postseason. Default parameter is "Regular+Season". c("Regular+Season","Playoffs","Pre+Season","All+Star")
season_segment	Choose season half for the data. Empty string means whole season and it is set by default. c("","Post+All-Star","Pre+All-Star")
game_segment	Choose game half for the data. Empty string means whole game and it is set by default. c("","First+Half","Overtime","Second Half")
date_from	Day from which data will be collected. It is set in MM/DD/YYYY format and by default is not specified, so data is calculated for whole season.
date_to	Day to which data will be collected. It is set in MM/DD/YYYY format and by default is not specified, so data is calculated for whole season.
outcome	Filter by game result. It can be a loss (L) or a win (W). By default parameter is an empty string, so both are taken into account. c("","W","L")
period	Choose game period for the data. 0 means whole game and it is set by default. as.character(c(0:4))
opponent_team_id	Filter by opponent's team id from nba.com database. Default "0" means all teams.
team_id	Specify team id from nba.com database. Default "0" means all teams.
verbose	Defalt TRUE - prints additional information

Value

Dataset from stats.nba.com

Author(s)

Patrick Chodowski, [e-mail]

Examples

season <- "2016"
type <- c("Player","Team")[1]

measure_type <- c("Base",
                 "Advanced",
                 "Misc",
                 "Scoring",
                 "Usage",
                 "Opponent",
                 "Defense",
                 "Four+Factors"
                 )[1]

per_mode <- c("PerGame","Totals")[1]
season_type <- c("Regular+Season","Playoffs","Pre+Season","All+Star")[1]
season_segment <- c("","Post+All-Star","Pre+All-Star")[1]
game_segment <- c("","First+Half","Overtime","Second+Half")[1]
period <- as.character(c(0:4))[1]
date_from <- "01/01/2017"
date_to <- "04/30/2017"
outcome <- c("","W","L")[1]
opponent_team_id <- 0
team_id <- 0
general_dataset <- get_general(
                              season,
                              type,
                              measure_type,
                              per_mode,
                              season_type,
                              season_segment,
                              game_segment,
                              date_from,
                              date_to,
                              outcome,
                              period,
                              opponent_team_id,
                              team_id
                              )

PatrickChodowski/NBAr documentation built on April 20, 2021, 10:21 p.m.