Get a college football team's season records – overall, home, away, and conference splits – with the full set of summary stats ESPN attaches to each.
Arguments
- team_id
(Integer required): ESPN team id.
- year
(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY).
- season_type
(Integer default 2): ESPN season type.
2= regular season,3= postseason.- 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 record-stat:
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season (4-digit year). |
| season_type | integer | ESPN season type (2 = regular, 3 = postseason). |
| 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. |
| record_type | character | Record type code (e.g. total, homerecord). |
| record_name | character | Record display name (e.g. overall, Home). |
| record_summary | character | Win-loss summary string (e.g. 13-1). |
| stat_name | character | Stat key (e.g. wins, avgPointsFor). |
| stat_value | numeric | Numeric stat value. |
| stat_display | character | Display-formatted stat value. |
Details
Wraps the ESPN core-v2 team record endpoint
sports.core.api.espn.com/v2/sports/football/leagues/college-football/seasons/{year}/types/{season_type}/teams/{team_id}/record.
ESPN returns several record items per team (overall, home record, away
record, vs. conference), each carrying ~20 summary stats. This wrapper
flattens that to long format: one row per (record-item x stat). The long
shape absorbs ESPN adding or retiring stat keys across seasons. 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_powerindex(),
espn_cfb_team_ranks(),
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_record(team_id = 61, year = 2024))
#> ── Team record from ESPN ───────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:58 UTC
#> # A tibble: 92 × 19
#> season season_type team_id team_name team_abbreviation team_location
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 2 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 3 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 4 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 5 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 6 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 7 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 8 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 9 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> 10 2024 2 61 Bulldogs UGA Georgia
#> # ℹ 82 more rows
#> # ℹ 13 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>, stat_value <dbl>,
#> # stat_display <chr>
try(espn_cfb_team_record(team_id = 61, year = 2024,
team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Team record from ESPN ───────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:57:58 UTC
#> # A tibble: 92 × 9
#> season season_type team_id record_type record_name record_summary stat_name
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 OTLosses
#> 2 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 OTWins
#> 3 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 avgPointsA…
#> 4 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 avgPointsF…
#> 5 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 differenti…
#> 6 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 divisionWi…
#> 7 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 gamesBehind
#> 8 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 gamesPlayed
#> 9 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 leagueWinP…
#> 10 2024 2 61 total overall 11-2 losses
#> # ℹ 82 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: stat_value <dbl>, stat_display <chr>
# }