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

Loads season-level NCAA men's football player box statistics parsed from stats.ncaa.org; one row per player-game-category. Published to the ncaa_mfb_player_stats release tag on the sportsdataverse-data repo.

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_player_stats(
  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
team_id	character
number	character
name	character
position	character
rush_attempts	character
rush_yds_gained	character
rush_yds_lost	character
yds_rush	character
rush_tds	character
rush_long	character
category	character
espn_game_id	character
pass_attempts	character
completions	character
pass_yards	character
interceptions	character
pass_tds	character
pass_eff	character
yds_per_completion	character
pct	character
long_pass	character
rec	character
receiving_yards	character
yards_per_reception	character
rec_td	character
long_rec	character
yds	character
plays	character
pbu	character
int	character
intyds	character
int_ret_tds	character
pdef	character
ko_ret	character
ko_ret_yds	character
kick_ret_tds	character
long_kor	character
sacks	character
solo_tack	character
asst_tack	character
tackles	character
fgm	character
fga	character
fg_blocks_allowed	character
punt_ret	character
punt_ret_yds	character
punt_ret_tds	character
long_pr	character
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_player_stats(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football player stats (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse da
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:27 UTC
#> # A tibble: 53,479 × 8
#>    contest_id team_id number name          position category espn_game_id season
#>    <chr>      <chr>   <chr>  <chr>         <chr>    <chr>    <chr>         <int>
#>  1 688871     1326323 7      Jawon Chisho… RB       other    332412116      2013
#>  2 688871     1326323 11     Zach D'Orazio YWR      other    332412116      2013
#>  3 688871     1326323 15     Nick Hirschm… QB       other    332412116      2013
#>  4 688871     1326323 34     Conor Hundley RB       other    332412116      2013
#>  5 688871     1326323 25     Denzel Jones  RB       other    332412116      2013
#>  6 688871     1326323 16     Kyle Pohl     QB       other    332412116      2013
#>  7 688871     1326323 NA     Akron         NA       other    332412116      2013
#>  8 688871     1326324 5      Blake Bortles QB       other    332412116      2013
#>  9 688871     1326324 3      Tyler Gabbert QB       other    332412116      2013
#> 10 688871     1326324 6      Rannell Hall  WR       other    332412116      2013
#> # ℹ 53,469 more rows
# }