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CFB Data Betting Lines Examples

Saiem Gilani, Akshay Easwaran, Jared Lee
@saiemgilani @saiemgilani @akeaswaran @akeaswaran

Source: vignettes/cfbd_betting.Rmd
cfbd_betting.Rmd

Load and Install Packages 

if (!requireNamespace('pak', quietly = TRUE)){
  install.packages('pak')
}
pak::pak(c("dplyr", "tidyr", "gt"))
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library(tidyr)
library(gt)
# cfbfastR is deliberately NOT in the pak() list above. pkgdown and
# R CMD check render this vignette against the package being built, and
# installing from CRAN here would overwrite that dev build with the last
# release -- so any function added since it would vanish mid-render.
library(cfbfastR)
# pak::pak("sportsdataverse/cfbfastR")

Get Betting information from games 

cfbd_betting_lines(year = 2018, week = 12, team = "Florida State")
## ── Betting lines data from CollegeFootballData.com ─────────── cfbfastR 3.1.0 ──
## ℹ Data updated: 2026-11-06 08:28:36 UTC
## # A tibble: 4 × 23
##     game_id season season_type  week start_date           home_team_id home_team
##       <int>  <int> <chr>       <int> <chr>                       <int> <chr>    
## 1 401013175   2018 regular        12 2018-11-17T20:30:00…           52 Florida …
## 2 401013175   2018 regular        12 2018-11-17T20:30:00…           52 Florida …
## 3 401013175   2018 regular        12 2018-11-17T20:30:00…           52 Florida …
## 4 401013175   2018 regular        12 2018-11-17T20:30:00…           52 Florida …
## # ℹ 16 more variables: home_conference <chr>, home_classification <chr>,
## #   home_score <int>, away_team_id <int>, away_team <chr>,
## #   away_conference <chr>, away_classification <chr>, away_score <int>,
## #   provider <chr>, spread <dbl>, formatted_spread <chr>, spread_open <lgl>,
## #   over_under <dbl>, over_under_open <lgl>, home_moneyline <lgl>,
## #   away_moneyline <lgl>
# 7 OTs LSU at TAMU
cfbd_betting_lines(year = 2018, week = 13, team = "Texas A&M", conference = "SEC")
## ── Betting lines data from CollegeFootballData.com ─────────── cfbfastR 3.1.0 ──
## ℹ Data updated: 2026-11-06 08:28:36 UTC
## # A tibble: 4 × 23
##     game_id season season_type  week start_date           home_team_id home_team
##       <int>  <int> <chr>       <int> <chr>                       <int> <chr>    
## 1 401012356   2018 regular        13 2018-11-25T00:30:00…          245 Texas A&M
## 2 401012356   2018 regular        13 2018-11-25T00:30:00…          245 Texas A&M
## 3 401012356   2018 regular        13 2018-11-25T00:30:00…          245 Texas A&M
## 4 401012356   2018 regular        13 2018-11-25T00:30:00…          245 Texas A&M
## # ℹ 16 more variables: home_conference <chr>, home_classification <chr>,
## #   home_score <int>, away_team_id <int>, away_team <chr>,
## #   away_conference <chr>, away_classification <chr>, away_score <int>,
## #   provider <chr>, spread <int>, formatted_spread <chr>, spread_open <lgl>,
## #   over_under <dbl>, over_under_open <lgl>, home_moneyline <lgl>,
## #   away_moneyline <lgl>

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Citation

To cite the cfbfastR R package in publications, use:

BibTeX Citation

@misc{cfbfastr,
  author = {Saiem Gilani and Akshay Easwaran and Jared Lee and Eric Hess},
  title = {cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data},
  url = {https://cfbfastR.sportsdataverse.org/},
  year = {2021}
}