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Load NCAA men's football linescores (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data repo

Source: R/load_ncaa_mfb.R
load_ncaa_mfb_linescore.Rd

Loads season-level NCAA men's football period linescores parsed from stats.ncaa.org; one row per team-period. Published to the ncaa_mfb_linescore release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_linescore(
  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 2013 through the most recent season. Pass seasons = TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2013)

...

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_nametypesdescription
contest_idcharacter
teamcharacter
home_awaycharacter
periodcharacter
pointsinteger
finalinteger
game_datecharacter
venuecharacter
attendanceinteger
espn_game_idcharacter
seasoninteger

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_linescore(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football linescores (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:17 UTC
#> # A tibble: 12,496 × 11
#>    contest_id team      home_away period points final game_date venue attendance
#>    <chr>      <chr>     <chr>     <chr>   <int> <int> <chr>     <chr>      <int>
#>  1 688871     Akron     away      1           0     7 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  2 688871     Akron     away      2           0     7 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  3 688871     Akron     away      3           0     7 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  4 688871     Akron     away      4           7     7 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  5 688871     UCF       home      1          14    38 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  6 688871     UCF       home      2          10    38 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  7 688871     UCF       home      3          14    38 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  8 688871     UCF       home      4           0    38 08/29/20… NA         35115
#>  9 688872     Sacramen… away      1           0     0 08/29/20… NA         13136
#> 10 688872     Sacramen… away      2           0     0 08/29/20… NA         13136
#> # ℹ 12,486 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: espn_game_id <chr>, season <int>
# }