ncaa_team_player_stats function

Scrape NCAA baseball Team Player Stats (Division I, II, and III)

This function allows the user to obtain batting or pitching statistics for any school affiliated with the NCAA at the division I, II, or III levels. The function acquires data from the NCAA's website (stats.ncaa.org) and returns a tibble.

ncaa_team_player_stats(
  team_id,
  year = most_recent_ncaa_baseball_season(),
  type = "batting",
  ...
)

Arguments

• team_id: The numerical ID that the NCAA website uses to identify a team
• year: The season for which data should be returned, in the form of "YYYY". Years currently available: 2013-2017.
• type: A string indicating whether to return "batting" or "pitching" statistics
• ...: Additional arguments passed to an underlying function like httr.

Returns

A data frame with the following variables

col_name	types
year	integer
team_name	character
team_id	numeric
conference_id	integer
conference	character
division	numeric
player_id	integer
player_url	character
player_name	character
Yr	character
Pos	character
Jersey	character
GP	numeric
GS	numeric
BA	numeric
OBPct	numeric
SlgPct	numeric
R	numeric
AB	numeric
H	numeric
2B	numeric
3B	numeric
TB	numeric
HR	numeric
RBI	numeric
BB	numeric
HBP	numeric
SF	numeric
SH	numeric
K	numeric
DP	numeric
CS	numeric
Picked	numeric
SB	numeric
RBI2out	numeric

Examples

try(ncaa_team_player_stats(team_id = 234, year = 2023, type = "batting"))