ESPN College Football Player Stats (web v3, all categories)
Source:R/espn_cfb_player.R
espn_cfb_player_stats_v3.RdGet a single college football player's web-common-v3 statistics
from ESPN – the comprehensive /athletes/{id}/stats payload (every category:
passing, rushing, receiving, defensive, etc.) in long format (one row per stat).
This is the richer "v3" companion to espn_cfb_player_stats() (core-v2 season
statistics) and espn_cfb_player_career_stats().
Value
A data frame with one row per (category x team-season x stat):
| col_name | types | description |
| athlete_id | character | ESPN athlete id. |
| season | integer | Requested season (4-digit year). |
| category | character | Stat category key (e.g. passing). |
| category_display | character | Human-readable category name. |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id for the stat row. |
| team_slug | character | Team slug for the stat row. |
| stat_season | integer | Season of the stat row (per ESPN). |
| position | character | Player position for the stat row. |
| stat_name | character | Stat key (from the category names). |
| stat_label | character | Stat short label (from labels). |
| stat_display_name | character | Stat display name (from displayNames). |
| value | character | Stat value (as published). |
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_seasons(),
espn_cfb_player_splits(),
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_stats_v3(athlete_id = 4431611, year = 2023))
#> ── Player web-v3 statistics from ESPN ──────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:56:52 UTC
#> # A tibble: 190 × 18
#> athlete_id season category category_display team_id team_slug stat_season
#> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 2 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 3 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 4 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 5 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 6 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 7 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 8 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 9 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> 10 4431611 2023 passing Passing 201 oklahoma-soo… 2021
#> # ℹ 180 more rows
#> # ℹ 11 more variables: position <chr>, stat_name <chr>, stat_label <chr>,
#> # stat_display_name <chr>, value <chr>, athlete_display_name <chr>,
#> # athlete_first_name <chr>, athlete_last_name <chr>, athlete_jersey <chr>,
#> # athlete_position <chr>, athlete_position_abbreviation <chr>
# }