Notes
- Blazing the Nets, rebuilt on d3 v7
2026-09-30 · 4 min
A 2021 shot-chart site that carried 1.6 GB of JSON in git, rebuilt to read release parquet files at request time, and what the reviews caught on the way.
- The badge that lies
2026-09-30 · 4 min
GitHub's workflow badge picks a run by event type, so it can read failing when the latest run passed, and that is how most SportsDataverse pipelines run.
- sportsdataverse (Python): Sports data in Python, on polars
2021-10-12 · 6 min
Sports data in Python, rebuilt on polars: ESPN across every league, the NBA and WNBA stats APIs, NHL, MLB and Statcast, HockeyTech and stats.ncaa.org.
- {hoopR} for Men's Basketball
2022-05-08 · 9 min
An R package for NBA and men's college basketball: ESPN, the NBA Stats API, KenPom, CollegeBasketballData and more, plus full-season loaders.
- wehoop: Access Women's Basketball Play by Play Data
2021-02-26 · 7 min
An R package for WNBA and NCAA women's basketball: ESPN, the WNBA Stats API, Fox, NCAA.com and Her Hoop Stats, plus multi-season loaders.
- cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data
2021-04-02 · 7 min
An R package wrapping the CollegeFootballData API and ESPN to deliver tidy college football play-by-play with EPA and win probability.
- cfbseedR: Simulate and Evaluate College Football Seasons
2026-07-03 · 6 min
An R package that simulates college football seasons week by week and computes standings, conference champions and CFP seeds.
- baseballr: Acquiring and Analyzing Baseball Data
2016-01-04 · 7 min
An R package for MLB, Statcast, FanGraphs, Baseball Reference and NCAA baseball data, plus wOBA, FIP and other metric helpers.
- fastRhockey: Functions to Access Professional Women's Hockey League and National Hockey League Play by Play Data
2021-10-13 · 7 min
An R package for NHL and PWHL play-by-play and stats, plus AHL/OHL/WHL/QMJHL via HockeyTech and built-in xG models.
- oddsapiR: Access Live Sports Odds from the Odds API
2022-03-29 · 6 min
A tidy R client for The Odds API: sports discovery, live and historical odds, scores, and per-request usage-quota tracking.
- sdvplotR: Sports Team Logo Plots in 'ggplot2', 'gt' and 'reactable'
2022-08-22 · 5 min
One sport argument, eight leagues: team logos, colors and gt/reactable themes for NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL and college sports.
- sportsdataverse (Node.js): Sports data for Node.js
2021-02-19 · 6 min
Node.js client which retrieves sports data from the ESPN API as well as from the NCAA website, with support for NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, WNBA, men's and women's college basketball, and college football.
- cfb4th: Functions to Calculate Optimal Fourth Down Decisions for NCAA Football
2021-09-22 · 5 min
An R package that estimates go-for-it, punt and field-goal win probabilities for college football fourth downs.
- cfbplotR: CFB Logo Plots in 'ggplot2'
2021-09-08 · 5 min
Team logos, wordmarks, headshots and colors as ggplot2 geoms, scales and gt table helpers for college football.
- recruitR: A College Sports Recruiting Package
2020-06-20 · 5 min
Player and team recruiting rankings for college football from the CollegeFootballData API and the 247Sports Composite.
- usfootballR: Access MLS and NWSL Play-by-Play Data
2021-11-10 · 5 min
MLS and NWSL play-by-play, box scores, standings and schedules scraped live from ESPN, with loader stubs for a companion data repo.
- sportsdataverse (R): Easily Install and Load the 'SportsDataverse'
2021-08-30 · 6 min
One install and one library() call loads the whole R side of the SportsDataverse, plus helpers to check versions and keep it updated.
- sportsdataversedata: sportsdataverse data storage functions
2023-03-04 · 5 min
The GitHub-release plumbing every load_*() function reads from: multi-format uploads, a timestamp contract, and gh CLI helpers.