get_playerbio: Download Player Bio data for NBA Players

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Description

Download and process NBA.com Player data from http://stats.nba.com/players/bio/.

Usage

get_playerbio(
  season,
  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
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
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 <- 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

df <- get_playerbio(
                                   season,
                                   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.