load_pbp function

Load Play By Play

Loads play by play seasons from the nflverse-data repository

load_pbp(...)

Arguments

• ...: Arguments passed on to nflreadr::load_pbp

  • seasons: A numeric vector of 4-digit years associated with given NFL seasons - defaults to latest season. If set to TRUE, returns all available data since 1999.
  • file_type: One of c("rds", "qs", "csv", "parquet"). Can also be set globally with options(nflreadr.prefer)

Returns

The complete nflfastR dataset as returned by nflfastR::build_nflfastR_pbp()

(see below) for all given seasons

Examples

try({# to avoid CRAN test problems
pbp <- load_pbp(2019:2020)
dplyr::glimpse(pbp)
})

See Also

https://nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/dictionary_pbp.html for a web version of the data dictionary

dictionary_pbp for the data dictionary bundled as a package dataframe

https://www.nflfastr.com/reference/build_nflfastR_pbp.html for the nflfastR function nflfastR::build_nflfastR_pbp()

Issues with this data should be filed here: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-pbp