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

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

Usage

load_ncaa_mfb_rosters(
  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
team_id	character
team_name	character
player_id	character
player_name	character
jersey	character
statcrew_jersey	character
player_class	character
position	character
height	character
weight	integer
hometown	character
high_school	character
games_played	integer
games_started	integer
academic_year	integer
season	integer

Author

Saiem Gilani

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_mfb_rosters(2013))
#> ── NCAA men's football rosters (stats.ncaa.org) from the SportsDataverse data re
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-10 05:50:28 UTC
#> # A tibble: 25,041 × 16
#>    team_id team_name  player_id player_name  jersey statcrew_jersey player_class
#>    <chr>   <chr>      <chr>     <chr>        <chr>  <chr>           <chr>       
#>  1 62681   Akron Zips 4188918   Emmanuel La… 31     NA              Sr.         
#>  2 62681   Akron Zips 4188920   Jarrod Pugh… 76     NA              Sr.         
#>  3 62681   Akron Zips 4188921   Dee Frieson  83     NA              Sr.         
#>  4 62681   Akron Zips 4188925   Jerrod Dill… 88     NA              Sr.         
#>  5 62681   Akron Zips 4188926   Jon Root     86     NA              Sr.         
#>  6 62681   Akron Zips 4244986   Nick Rossi   44     NA              Jr.         
#>  7 62681   Akron Zips 4243814   Bill Alexan… 21     NA              Sr.         
#>  8 62681   Akron Zips 4243815   Broderick A… 2      NA              Sr.         
#>  9 62681   Akron Zips 4243816   Andrew Bohan 85     NA              So.         
#> 10 62681   Akron Zips 4243817   Dylan Brumb… 75     NA              So.         
#> # ℹ 25,031 more rows
#> # ℹ 9 more variables: position <chr>, height <chr>, weight <int>,
#> #   hometown <chr>, high_school <chr>, games_played <int>, games_started <int>,
#> #   academic_year <int>, season <int>
# }