ESPN College Football Game Team Linescores
Source:R/espn_cfb_game.R
espn_cfb_game_team_linescores.RdGet the quarter-by-quarter linescores for both teams in a single college football game.
Value
A data frame with one row per team-period:
| col_name | types | description |
| game_id | character | ESPN game identifier. |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id for the team. |
| team_name | character | Team nickname; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_abbreviation | character | Team abbreviation; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_location | character | Team location / school name; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_display_name | character | Full team display name; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_short_display_name | character | Short team display name; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_nickname | character | Team nickname label; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_color | character | Primary team color; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_alternate_color | character | Alternate team color; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_logo_href | character | Default team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| team_logo_dark_href | character | Dark-variant team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only. |
| home_away | character | home or away. |
| period | integer | Period number (1-4 quarters; 5+ overtime). |
| value | numeric | Points scored by the team in that period. |
| display_value | character | Display-formatted period score. |
| source_id | character | ESPN data-source id for the linescore. |
| source_state | character | ESPN data-source state (e.g. full). |
| source_description | character | ESPN data-source description (e.g. Basic/Manual). |
| linescore_ref | character | $ref URL to the per-period linescore resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
events/{game_id}/competitions/{game_id}/competitors/{team_id}/linescores.
This wrapper first reads the teams list for the game and then
fetches the linescores resource for both teams, stacking the
results into one long frame – one row per (team x period). home_away
identifies which team a row belongs to. Periods 1-4 are quarters;
periods 5+ are overtime sessions.
When team_detail = TRUE (the default) the ESPN team catalog
(espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined
in next to the team_id column – team_name, team_abbreviation,
team_location, team_display_name, team_short_display_name,
team_nickname, team_color, team_alternate_color,
team_logo_href, and team_logo_dark_href. A catalog failure degrades
to NA
rather than erroring the wrapper. Set team_detail = FALSE to skip the
catalog fetch and the join.
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_futures(),
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_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_game_team_linescores(game_id = 401628339))
#> ── Game team linescores data from ESPN ─────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:56:32 UTC
#> # A tibble: 8 × 20
#> game_id team_id team_name team_abbreviation team_location team_display_name
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 401628339 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 2 401628339 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 3 401628339 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 4 401628339 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 5 401628339 2635 Golden Ea… TNTC Tennessee Te… Tennessee Tech G…
#> 6 401628339 2635 Golden Ea… TNTC Tennessee Te… Tennessee Tech G…
#> 7 401628339 2635 Golden Ea… TNTC Tennessee Te… Tennessee Tech G…
#> 8 401628339 2635 Golden Ea… TNTC Tennessee Te… Tennessee Tech G…
#> # ℹ 14 more variables: team_short_display_name <chr>, team_nickname <chr>,
#> # team_color <chr>, team_alternate_color <chr>, team_logo_href <chr>,
#> # team_logo_dark_href <chr>, home_away <chr>, period <int>, value <dbl>,
#> # display_value <chr>, source_id <chr>, source_state <chr>,
#> # source_description <chr>, linescore_ref <chr>
try(espn_cfb_game_team_linescores(game_id = 401628339,
team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Game team linescores data from ESPN ─────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:56:32 UTC
#> # A tibble: 8 × 10
#> game_id team_id home_away period value display_value source_id source_state
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 401628339 61 home 1 14 14 1 NA
#> 2 401628339 61 home 2 10 10 1 NA
#> 3 401628339 61 home 3 21 21 1 NA
#> 4 401628339 61 home 4 3 3 1 NA
#> 5 401628339 2635 away 1 0 0 1 NA
#> 6 401628339 2635 away 2 0 0 1 NA
#> 7 401628339 2635 away 3 0 0 1 NA
#> 8 401628339 2635 away 4 3 3 1 NA
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: source_description <chr>, linescore_ref <chr>
# }