ESPN College Football Single-Team Power Index (Long Format)
Source:R/espn_cfb_team.R
espn_cfb_team_powerindex.RdGet ESPN's College Football Power Index (FPI) detail for a single team-season – the full set of predictive metrics and efficiency components ESPN attaches to one team.
Value
A data frame with one row per metric:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| team_id | character | ESPN team id. |
| 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. |
| team_ref | character | $ref URL to the team-in-season resource. |
| last_updated | character | Timestamp ESPN last refreshed the power index. |
| metric_group | character | predictive or efficiency. |
| stat_name | character | Internal metric key (e.g. fpi, offefficiency). |
| abbreviation | character | Metric abbreviation. |
| display_name | character | Human-readable metric name. |
| value | numeric | Metric value. |
| display_value | character | Display-formatted metric value as shown on ESPN. |
| description | character | ESPN's description of the metric. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 single-team power-index endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/powerindex/{team_id}.
Where espn_cfb_powerindex() returns the league-wide index, this wrapper
drills into one team and returns one row per metric in long format: every
predictive metric (FPI, projected wins, strength of record, ...) and every
efficiency component (offensive, defensive, special-teams efficiency, ...).
The long shape is deliberate – ESPN adds and retires metrics across
seasons, and a long frame absorbs that drift. Pivot wider with
tidyr::pivot_wider() keyed on stat_name for a wide table.
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_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_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_team_powerindex(team_id = 61, year = 2024))
#> ── Team Power Index data from ESPN ─────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:57 UTC
#> # A tibble: 43 × 21
#> season team_id team_name team_abbreviation team_location team_display_name
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 2 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 3 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 4 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 5 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 6 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 7 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 8 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 9 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> 10 2024 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia Georgia Bulldogs
#> # ℹ 33 more rows
#> # ℹ 15 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>, team_ref <chr>, last_updated <chr>,
#> # metric_group <chr>, stat_name <chr>, abbreviation <chr>,
#> # display_name <chr>, value <dbl>, display_value <chr>, description <chr>
try(espn_cfb_team_powerindex(team_id = 61, year = 2024,
team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Team Power Index data from ESPN ─────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:57 UTC
#> # A tibble: 43 × 11
#> season team_id team_ref last_updated metric_group stat_name abbreviation
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive fpi FPI
#> 2 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive fpirank FPI
#> 3 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive projecte… PROJ W
#> 4 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive projecte… PROJ L
#> 5 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive projecte… PROJ TIE
#> 6 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive projecte… PROJ WIN% R…
#> 7 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive probwino… WIN OUT%
#> 8 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive probwinc… WIN CONF%
#> 9 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive sosremai… REM SOS RNK
#> 10 2024 61 http://sport… 2024-12-15T… predictive accompli… SOR
#> # ℹ 33 more rows
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: display_name <chr>, value <dbl>, display_value <chr>,
#> # description <chr>
# }