{wehoop} for Women's Basketball
wehoop 
wehoop is an R package for working with women’s college and
professional basketball data. The package has functions to access live
play by play and box score data from ESPN with shot locations when
available.
A scraping and aggregating interface for ESPN’s women’s college basketball and WNBA statistics. It provides users with the capability to access the API’s game play-by-plays, box scores, standings and results to analyze the data for themselves.
Installation
You can install the CRAN version of
wehoop with:
install.packages("wehoop")You can install the released version of
wehoop from
GitHub with:
# You can install using the pak package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pak', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('pak')
}
pak::pak("sportsdataverse/wehoop")Quick Start
WNBA full play-by-play seasons (2002-2026) ~ 1-2 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wnba_pbp <- wehoop::load_wnba_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()0.94 sec elapsed
93166 rows of WNBA play-by-play data from 241 games.
Women’s college basketball full play-by-play seasons (2004-2026) ~ 2-3 minutes
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
wbb_pbp <- wehoop::load_wbb_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()10.58 sec elapsed
2824090 rows of women's college basketball play-by-play data from 6011 games.
ESPN endpoint wrappers
wehoop 3.0.0 ships 80 ESPN basketball endpoint wrappers (39
espn_wbb_* + 41 espn_wnba_*) covering reference and catalog data,
team detail, athlete coverage, event-level enrichments (odds, win
probability, officials, broadcasts), WNBA-only artifacts (draft, free
agents, transactions), and league-wide catalogs. See the ESPN
basketball endpoints
vignette
for a full walkthrough.
Documentation
For more information on the package and function reference, please see
the wehoop documentation
website.
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Our Authors
Citations
To cite the wehoop R package
in publications, use:
BibTex Citation
@misc{hutchinson_gilani_2021_wehoop,
author = {Saiem Gilani and Geoff Hutchinson},
title = {wehoop: The SportsDataverse's R Package for Women's Basketball Data.},
url = {https://wehoop.sportsdataverse.org},
year = {2021}
}