Get the set of season types (preseason, regular season, postseason, off-season) ESPN tracks for a college football season, including each type's date window and capability flags.
Value
A data frame with one row per season type:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| season_type | integer | ESPN season type id (1 pre, 2 reg, 3 post, 4 off). |
| type | integer | Season type code (mirrors season_type). |
| name | character | Season type name (e.g. Regular Season). |
| abbreviation | character | Season type abbreviation (e.g. reg). |
| slug | character | Season type slug (e.g. regular-season). |
| start_date | character | Season type start timestamp (ISO 8601, UTC). |
| end_date | character | Season type end timestamp (ISO 8601, UTC). |
| has_groups | logical | Whether the season type exposes a groups resource. |
| has_standings | logical | Whether the season type exposes standings. |
| type_ref | character | $ref URL to the season type resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types.
The index returns one $ref per season type; this wrapper dereferences
each and returns one row per type (typically four: 1 preseason,
2 regular season, 3 postseason, 4 off-season). The season_type
ids returned here are the values other Batch 5 wrappers
(espn_cfb_season_weeks(), espn_cfb_groups(), espn_cfb_standings(),
espn_cfb_week_rankings()) accept as their season_type argument.
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_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_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_season_types(year = 2024))
#> ── Season types from ESPN ──────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:07 UTC
#> # A tibble: 4 × 11
#> season season_type type name abbreviation slug start_date end_date
#> <int> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 1 1 Preseason pre pres… 2024-07-0… 2024-08…
#> 2 2024 2 2 Regular Season reg regu… 2024-08-2… 2024-12…
#> 3 2024 3 3 Postseason post post… 2024-12-1… 2025-01…
#> 4 2024 4 4 Off Season off off-… 2025-01-2… 2025-02…
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: has_groups <lgl>, has_standings <lgl>, type_ref <chr>
# }