get_season: Scrape NBA player data by season
In mbjoseph/bbr: Scrapes data from basketball-reference.com

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/get_season.R

This function retrieves NBA player data for a specific season, specified by year. There will be one row per player X team combination. That is, if a player played for multiple teams in one season, they will show up on multiple rows (one row for each team).

1	get_season(year)

year

Which season do you want data for? If you want the 2016-2017 data, use the latter year (2017).

A data.frame with a row for each player X team combo in that season.

The columns include:

player: Player name
pos: Position
age: Age in years
tm: Team
g: Games played
gs: Games started
mp: Minutes played
fg: Field goals made
fga: Field goals attempted
fg_pct: Field goal shooting percentage
three_p: Three point shots made
three_pa: Three point shots attempted
three_p_pct: Three point shooting percentage
two_p: Two point shots made
two_pa: Two point shots attempted
two_p_pct: Two point shooting percentage
efg_pct: Effective field goal percentage (adjusts for fact that 3 pointers are worth one more point than two pointers)
ft: Free throws made
fta: Free throw attempts
ft_pct: Free throw percentage
orb: Offensive rebounds
drb: Defensive rebounds
trb: Total rebounds
ast: Assists
stl: Steals
blk: Blocks
tov: Turnovers
pf: Personal fouls
pts: Points made
start_year: Year season began
end_year: Year seson ended