Get ESPN's standings for a college football group – the full set of record splits (overall, home, away, conference, ...) and every standings statistic (wins, losses, point differential, streak, ...) for every team in the group.
Arguments
- year
(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY).
- group_id
(Integer default 90): ESPN group id.
90= NCAA Division I (all D-I teams). Conference group ids also work.- season_type
(Integer default 2): ESPN season type id.
2= regular season.- team_detail
(Logical): when
TRUE(default), fetch the ESPN team catalog once and join friendly team fields next to theteam_idcolumn (see Details). SetFALSEto skip the catalog fetch and the join.
Value
A data frame with one row per team-record-statistic:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| season_type | integer | ESPN season type id queried. |
| group_id | character | ESPN group id queried. |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id (parsed from team_ref). |
| 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. |
| record_type | character | Record split type code (e.g. total, homerecord). |
| record_name | character | Record split name (e.g. Overall, Home). |
| record_summary | character | Record split summary (e.g. 14-0). |
| stat_name | character | Standings statistic key (e.g. wins, streak). |
| abbreviation | character | Statistic abbreviation. |
| display_name | character | Human-readable statistic name. |
| value | numeric | Statistic value. |
| display_value | character | Display-formatted statistic value. |
| team_ref | character | $ref URL to the per-season team resource. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/{season_type}/groups/{group_id}/standings.
The standings resource nests three levels deep – team -> record split
-> statistic – so this wrapper returns long format: one row per
(team x record split x statistic). The long shape absorbs ESPN's habit
of adding standings stats across seasons. Pivot wider keyed on
stat_name (within a record_type) when a wide table is wanted.
group_id = 90 (NCAA Division I) is the sensible default and yields
every D-I team in one call. Conference-level group_ids – enumerate
them with espn_cfb_groups() – restrict the table to that conference.
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, inserted immediately after
team_id.
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_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_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_standings(year = 2024))
#> ── Standings data from ESPN ────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:33 UTC
#> # A tibble: 36,892 × 23
#> season season_type group_id team_id team_name team_abbreviation team_location
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 2 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 3 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 4 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 5 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 6 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 7 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 8 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 9 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> 10 2024 2 90 147 Bobcats MTST Montana State
#> # ℹ 36,882 more rows
#> # ℹ 16 more variables: team_display_name <chr>, team_short_display_name <chr>,
#> # team_nickname <chr>, team_color <chr>, team_alternate_color <chr>,
#> # team_logo_href <chr>, team_logo_dark_href <chr>, record_type <chr>,
#> # record_name <chr>, record_summary <chr>, stat_name <chr>,
#> # abbreviation <chr>, display_name <chr>, value <dbl>, display_value <chr>,
#> # team_ref <chr>
try(espn_cfb_standings(year = 2024, team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Standings data from ESPN ────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:53 UTC
#> # A tibble: 36,892 × 13
#> season season_type group_id team_id record_type record_name record_summary
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 2 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 3 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 4 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 5 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 6 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 7 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 8 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 9 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> 10 2024 2 90 147 total overall 14-0
#> # ℹ 36,882 more rows
#> # ℹ 6 more variables: stat_name <chr>, abbreviation <chr>, display_name <chr>,
#> # value <dbl>, display_value <chr>, team_ref <chr>
# }