Get the list of seasons a single college football player
has a statistical record for on ESPN – one row per season, with the
$ref URLs to that season's statistics.
Value
A data frame with one row per season-stat-type entry:
| col_name | types | description |
| athlete_id | character | ESPN athlete id. |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year) the player has a record in. |
| stat_type | character | Statistics type for the entry (e.g. total). |
| season_ref | character | $ref URL to the season resource. |
| statistics_ref | character | $ref URL to the season statistics resource. |
| athlete_display_name | character | Player display name; athlete_detail = TRUE only. |
| athlete_first_name | character | Player first name; athlete_detail = TRUE only. |
| athlete_last_name | character | Player last name; athlete_detail = TRUE only. |
| athlete_jersey | character | Player jersey number; athlete_detail = TRUE only. |
| athlete_position | character | Player position name; athlete_detail = TRUE only. |
| athlete_position_abbreviation | character | Player position abbreviation; athlete_detail = TRUE only. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/athletes/{athlete_id}/statisticslog.
ESPN exposes no dedicated /athletes/{id}/seasons resource for college
football (that path 404s); the statistics log is the closest thing – it
returns one entry per season the player accumulated statistics in,
which is exactly the player's season list. Each entry carries the
season $ref and one or more statistics references (split by stat
type, e.g. total). The statistics themselves are not
auto-dereferenced; use espn_cfb_player_career_stats() for a resolved,
long-format stat table for a given season.
When athlete_detail = TRUE (the default) the requested athlete's ESPN
record is fetched once (from the league-wide athlete resource, since this
wrapper takes no year) and the human-readable name columns
athlete_display_name, athlete_first_name, athlete_last_name,
athlete_jersey, athlete_position, and athlete_position_abbreviation
are appended to every row. This is a single cheap fetch – the wrapper
already takes one athlete_id. A fetch failure degrades the name columns
to NA rather than erroring the wrapper. Set athlete_detail = FALSE to
skip the fetch and reproduce the prior output exactly.
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_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_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_player_seasons(athlete_id = 102597))
#> ── Player seasons from ESPN ────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:56:49 UTC
#> # A tibble: 10 × 11
#> athlete_id season stat_type season_ref statistics_ref athlete_display_name
#> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 102597 2024 total http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 2 102597 2024 team http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 3 102597 2023 total http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 4 102597 2023 team http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 5 102597 2022 total http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 6 102597 2022 team http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 7 102597 2021 total http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 8 102597 2021 team http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 9 102597 2020 total http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> 10 102597 2020 team http://sport… http://sports… Will Rogers
#> # ℹ 5 more variables: athlete_first_name <chr>, athlete_last_name <chr>,
#> # athlete_jersey <chr>, athlete_position <chr>,
#> # athlete_position_abbreviation <chr>
try(espn_cfb_player_seasons(athlete_id = 102597, athlete_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Player seasons from ESPN ────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:56:49 UTC
#> # A tibble: 10 × 5
#> athlete_id season stat_type season_ref statistics_ref
#> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 102597 2024 total http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 2 102597 2024 team http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 3 102597 2023 total http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 4 102597 2023 team http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 5 102597 2022 total http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 6 102597 2022 team http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 7 102597 2021 total http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 8 102597 2021 team http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 9 102597 2020 total http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
#> 10 102597 2020 team http://sports.core.api.espn.com/v… http://sports…
# }