get_shooting: Download shooting data for Players and Teams

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Description

Download and process NBA.com shooting data from http://stats.nba.com/players/opponent-shooting/, http://stats.nba.com/teams/shooting/ etc.

Usage

get_shooting(
  season,
  type,
  distance_range,
  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")
distance_range	Specify how do you want to split the basketball court c("5ft Range","8ft Range","By Zone")
measure_type	Specify if you want data for offensive (base) or defensive(opponent) shooting per player or per team. c("Base","Opponent")
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]
distance_range <- c("5ft Range","8ft Range","By Zone")[1]
measure_type <- c("Base","Opponent")[1]
game_segment <- c('','First+Half','Overtime','Second+Half')
opponent_team_id <- 0
team_id <- 0
per_mode <- c("PerGame","Totals")[1]
period <- as.character(c(0:4))[1]
date_from <- "01/01/2017"
date_to <- "04/30/2017"
season_type <- c("Regular+Season","Playoffs","Pre+Season","All+Star")[1]
season_segment <- c("","Post+All-Star","Pre+All-Star")[1]
outcome <- c("","W","L")[1]

df <- get_shooting(
                                season,
                                type,
                                distance_range,
                                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.