cfbd_passing_players_season(): Get player season passing production, split by pass location.cfbd_passing_players_games(): Get player game passing production, split by pass location.cfbd_passing_teams_season(): Get team season passing production for and against, split by pass location.cfbd_passing_teams_games(): Get team game passing production for and against, split by pass location.cfbd_passing_plays(): Get individual passing plays with air yards, YAC and location detail.
Details
Get player season passing production
cfbd_passing_players_season(year = 2025, team = "Texas")Get player game passing production
cfbd_passing_players_games(year = 2025, week = 5)Get team season passing production
cfbd_passing_teams_season(year = 2025, team = "Texas")Get team game passing production
cfbd_passing_teams_games(year = 2025, week = 5)Get individual passing plays
cfbd_passing_plays(year = 2025, week = 5, team = "Texas")The passing production block
Every passing endpoint below shares one 23-column production block. It is documented once here rather than repeated in each returns table, because the team endpoints carry it sixteen times over (see Location splits).
| col_name | types | description |
| attempts | integer | Pass attempts. |
| completions | integer | Completed passes. |
| incompletions | integer | Incomplete passes. |
| interceptions | integer | Passes intercepted. |
| completion_rate | numeric | Completions divided by attempts (proportion 0-1). |
| air_yards_attempts_available | integer | Attempts for which air yards were parsed (the denominator for air-yard means). |
| total_air_yards | integer | Sum of air yards over air_yards_attempts_available attempts. |
| average_depth_of_target | numeric | Mean air yards per attempt (aDOT). |
| total_yards_attempts_available | integer | Attempts for which total yards were parsed. |
| total_yards | integer | Sum of passing yards over those attempts. |
| yards_after_catch_attempts_available | integer | Attempts for which yards after catch were parsed. |
| total_yards_after_catch | integer | Sum of yards after catch over those attempts. |
| average_yards_after_catch | numeric | Mean yards after catch per completion. |
| success_rate | numeric | Successful attempts divided by success_attempts_available (proportion 0-1). |
| ppa | numeric | Predicted points added per attempt. |
| total_ppa | numeric | Sum of predicted points added. |
| explosiveness | numeric | Mean PPA on successful attempts. |
| ppa_attempts_available | integer | Attempts carrying a PPA value (the denominator for ppa). |
| success_attempts_available | integer | Attempts eligible for the success calculation. |
| successful_attempts | integer | Attempts meeting the success threshold. |
| successful_ppa_attempts_available | integer | Successful attempts carrying a PPA value (the denominator for explosiveness). |
| location_eligible_attempts | integer | Attempts eligible for a location split. |
| location_available_attempts | integer | Attempts for which a location was actually parsed. |
The *_available counts are denominators, not statistics. CFBD parses these
fields out of play text, so an attempt can be counted while its air yards,
YAC or location stay unknown. Dividing by attempts instead of the matching
*_available column understates every mean.
Location splits
The same block repeats for each of seven pass locations, prefixed
locations_<bucket>_:
short_left,short_middle,short_rightdeep_left,deep_middle,deep_rightunknown– location could not be parsed from the play text
All seven buckets are always present, including empty ones. So a player frame
is 5 identity columns + 23 production + 7 x 23 location = 189 columns, and a
team frame doubles the production and location blocks across offense_ and
defense_ for 371.