Load ESPN college football linescores from the SportsDataverse data repo

Loads season-level period linescores – one row per team-period with points scored. Published to the espn_cfb_linescores release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_espn_cfb_linescores(
  seasons = most_recent_cfb_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given college football seasons. Published coverage runs 2004 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2004)

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database.

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()

tablename

The name of the data table within the database

Value

Returns a cfbfastR_data tibble.

col_name	types	description
team_id	integer
period	integer
value	character
game_id	integer
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_espn_cfb_linescores(2004))
#> ── ESPN college football linescores from the SportsDataverse data repo ─────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:49:52 UTC
#> # A tibble: 5,720 × 5
#>    team_id period value   game_id season
#>      <int>  <int> <chr>     <int>  <int>
#>  1     259      1 3     242410259   2004
#>  2     259      2 7     242410259   2004
#>  3     259      3 0     242410259   2004
#>  4     259      4 3     242410259   2004
#>  5      30      1 7     242410259   2004
#>  6      30      2 0     242410259   2004
#>  7      30      3 7     242410259   2004
#>  8      30      4 10    242410259   2004
#>  9     193      1 14    242410193   2004
#> 10     193      2 28    242410193   2004
#> # ℹ 5,710 more rows
# }