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

Loads season-level NCAA men's football game officials parsed from stats.ncaa.org; one row per game-official. Published to the ncaa_mfb_officials release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_officials(
  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_name	types	description
contest_id	character
role	character
official	character
espn_game_id	character
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_officials(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football officials (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data 
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:18 UTC
#> # A tibble: 11,334 × 5
#>    contest_id role  official        espn_game_id season
#>    <chr>      <chr> <chr>           <chr>         <int>
#>  1 688871     sj    George Plesac   332412116      2013
#>  2 688871     ump   Bob Holcomb     332412116      2013
#>  3 688871     line  John Wiercinski 332412116      2013
#>  4 688871     fj    DominiquePender 332412116      2013
#>  5 688871     ref   Tony Cannella   332412116      2013
#>  6 688871     lj    GaryJagodzinski 332412116      2013
#>  7 688871     bj    Todd Boyd       332412116      2013
#>  8 688872     sj    Lo Van Pham     332410023      2013
#>  9 688872     ump   Tim Martin      332410023      2013
#> 10 688872     line  Andy Warner     332410023      2013
#> # ℹ 11,324 more rows
# }