ESPN College Football Betting Futures (Long Format)
Source:R/espn_cfb_ratings.R
espn_cfb_futures.RdGet ESPN's full futures-betting board for a college football season – national championship, conference, and award markets with the American odds each sportsbook is offering on every team or player.
Value
A data frame with one row per market-provider-entry:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| market_id | character | ESPN futures-market identifier. |
| market_name | character | Internal market name (e.g. NCAA(F) - Championship). |
| market_type | character | Market type code (e.g. winLeague). |
| market_display | character | Human-readable market name (e.g. National Championship Winner). |
| provider_id | character | Sportsbook / provider identifier. |
| provider_name | character | Sportsbook / provider name (e.g. ESPN BET). |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id (parsed from team_ref); NA for player markets. |
| athlete_id | character | ESPN athlete id (parsed from athlete_ref); NA for team markets. |
| odds_value | character | American odds for the entry (e.g. -400, +150). |
| team_ref | character | $ref URL to the per-season team resource (may be NA). |
| athlete_ref | character | $ref URL to the per-season athlete resource (may be NA). |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/futures.
The season index returns one $ref per futures market; this wrapper
dereferences each market and flattens the nested
market -> provider -> books tree into long format: one row per
(market x provider x entry). Most markets are team markets (national
championship, conference winners) and populate team_id; player markets
(e.g. the Heisman) populate athlete_id instead, with the other id
column left NA. odds_value is the raw American-odds string ESPN
returns (e.g. -400, +150).
See also
Other ESPN CFB Functions:
espn_cfb_award(),
espn_cfb_awards(),
espn_cfb_clear_cache(),
espn_cfb_coach(),
espn_cfb_coach_record(),
espn_cfb_coaches(),
espn_cfb_franchise(),
espn_cfb_franchises(),
espn_cfb_game_broadcasts(),
espn_cfb_game_drive_plays(),
espn_cfb_game_drives(),
espn_cfb_game_leaders(),
espn_cfb_game_odds(),
espn_cfb_game_pbp(),
espn_cfb_game_play(),
espn_cfb_game_player_box(),
espn_cfb_game_player_statistics(),
espn_cfb_game_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_game_predictor(),
espn_cfb_game_probabilities(),
espn_cfb_game_situation(),
espn_cfb_game_status(),
espn_cfb_game_team_leaders(),
espn_cfb_game_team_linescores(),
espn_cfb_game_team_records(),
espn_cfb_game_team_roster(),
espn_cfb_game_team_statistics(),
espn_cfb_game_teams(),
espn_cfb_groups(),
espn_cfb_pbp_v2(),
espn_cfb_player(),
espn_cfb_player_career_stats(),
espn_cfb_player_eventlog(),
espn_cfb_player_gamelog(),
espn_cfb_player_overview(),
espn_cfb_player_seasons(),
espn_cfb_player_splits(),
espn_cfb_player_stats_v3(),
espn_cfb_players(),
espn_cfb_position(),
espn_cfb_positions(),
espn_cfb_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_qbr(),
espn_cfb_rankings(),
espn_cfb_recruits(),
espn_cfb_season_info(),
espn_cfb_season_types(),
espn_cfb_season_weeks(),
espn_cfb_seasons(),
espn_cfb_standings(),
espn_cfb_team(),
espn_cfb_team_ats(),
espn_cfb_team_awards(),
espn_cfb_team_coaches(),
espn_cfb_team_events(),
espn_cfb_team_leaders(),
espn_cfb_team_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_team_ranks(),
espn_cfb_team_record(),
espn_cfb_team_roster(),
espn_cfb_team_schedule(),
espn_cfb_teams(),
espn_cfb_unnest_plays(),
espn_cfb_venue(),
espn_cfb_venues(),
espn_cfb_week_rankings()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(espn_cfb_futures(year = 2024))
#> ── Betting futures data from ESPN ──────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:55:51 UTC
#> # A tibble: 916 × 12
#> season market_id market_name market_type market_display provider_id
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 2 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 3 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 4 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 5 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 6 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 7 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 8 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 9 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> 10 2024 2758 NCAA(F) - Championsh… winLeague National Cham… 58
#> # ℹ 906 more rows
#> # ℹ 6 more variables: provider_name <chr>, team_id <chr>, athlete_id <chr>,
#> # odds_value <chr>, team_ref <chr>, athlete_ref <chr>
# }