fc_read_matches: Read Wyscout soccer matches data
In shawnsanto/scoutr: Soccer Data Manipulation and Visualization

Description Usage Arguments Value Note References See Also Examples

This function reads and processes the Wyscout matches data.

1	fc_read_matches(file, tidy_tibble = TRUE)

`file`	File path to `matches` JSON data.
`tidy_tibble`	Logical value indicating if the returned object should be a tidy tibble or not. If `FALSE`, a list is returned.

A tidy tibble or list depending on the value of argument tidy_tibble. A detailed description of the variables is given at the reference cited below. Not all variables are returned from the original JSON data file. Specifically, referee data is not included in the tidy tibble object, and only some data from nested section teamsData is included in the tidy tibble object.

The variable names in the returned tidy tibble are in snake case, but they are analogous to those used by Wyscout.

Pappalardo, L., Cintia, P., Rossi, A. et al. A public data set of spatio-temporal match events in soccer competitions. Sci Data 6, 236 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0247-7

All public Wyscout data is available at https://figshare.com/collections/Soccer_match_event_dataset/4415000/2

Other read functions: fc_read_coaches(), fc_read_competitions(), fc_read_events(), fc_read_players(), fc_read_teams()

file_path <- system.file("extdata", "matches_england.json", package = "scoutr")

matches <- fc_read_matches(file_path)
matches_list <- fc_read_matches(file_path, tidy_tibble = FALSE)