acquire: Acquire player tracking data from http://stats.nba.com/

In cpsievert/bbscrapeR: Tools for collecting basketball data from nba.com and wnba.com

Description

All the arguments to this function

Usage

acquire(type = "shot", PlayerID = "2544", DateFrom = "", DateTo = "",
  GameSegment = "", LastNGames = "0", LeagueID = "00", Location = "",
  Month = "0", OpponentTeamID = "0", Outcome = "", Period = "0",
  Season = "2013-14", SeasonSegment = "", SeasonType = "Regular+Season",
  TeamID = "0", VsConference = "", VsDivision = "", PerMode = "PerGame")

Arguments

type	Required type of tracking data. Eligible values are 'shot', 'rebound', 'pass', 'shotdefend', 'reb', 'shots'. The most useful/interesting are 'shot' and 'rebound'.
PlayerID	Required player ID. See data(players)
DateFrom	Optionally set date to begin acquiring data (in the format 'YYYY/MM/DD')
DateTo	Optionally set date to stop acquiring data (in the format 'YYYY/MM/DD')
GameSegment	Optionally filter by 'First+Half', Second+Half', or 'Overtime'.
LastNGames	Optionally filter by the last 'n' number of games.
LeagueID	Character vector with any combination of '00', '10', and/or '20'. These codes stand for NBA, WNBA and D-League, respectively.
Location	Optionally filter by 'Home' or 'Road' games?
Month	Optionally filter by Month (use '1' for Oct, '2' for Nov, etc.)
OpponentTeamID	Optionally filter by opposing team
Outcome	Optionally filter by wins (use 'W') or losses (use 'L')
Period	Optionally filter by quarter/OT (use '1' for 1st Quarter, '2' for 2nd, etc.)
Season	Required filter on season year
SeasonSegment	Optionally filter by 'Pre All-Star' or 'Post All-Star'
SeasonType	Required filter on either 'Regular Season' or 'Playoffs'
TeamID
VsConference
VsDivision
PerGame	Aggregate 'PerGame' or 'Totals'. Only relevant for "dashboards"

Examples

## Not run: 
# Defaults to Lebron's shots from the 2013-14 regular season
shots <- acquire()
# Lebron's rebounds from the 2013-14 regular season
rebounds <- acquire("rebound")
# The rest of these data types are "dashboards"
# That is, they show summary statistics that will change over
# the season. For this reason, you probably don't want to
# store these in a database.
pass_dash <- acquire("pass")
defense_dash <- acquire("shotdefend")
reb_dash <- acquire("reb")
shot_dash <- acquire("shots")

# All the shots for the 2013-14 season!
ids <- players[, 'PlayerID']
lshots <- lapply(ids, function(x) acquire(PlayerID = x))
allshots <- do.call("rbind", lshots)

# All the rebounds for the 2013-14 season!
lrebounds <- lapply(ids, function(x)
                 acquire(type = "rebound", PlayerID = x))
allrebs <- do.call("rbind", lrebounds)

## End(Not run)

cpsievert/bbscrapeR documentation built on May 13, 2019, 10:54 p.m.