parse.url: Scrape a game's play-by-play data

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Description

Connects the the given url, scrapes the play-by-play data, and interprets it as football plays.

Usage

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Arguments

url

url of the website containing the data to parse, provided as a string

Value

A data.table representing each play of the game as one row.

Examples

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plays = parse.url("http://espn.go.com/ncf/playbyplay?gameId=400610325&period=0")

wrbrooks/pbp documentation built on May 4, 2019, 11:59 a.m.