Fetch Player Stats

Source: R/fetch-player-stats.R

fetch_player_stats returns the Individual Player Statistics for AFL games. Internally, it calls a corresponding fetch_player_stats_* function that depends on the source given. By default the source used will be the official AFL website.

fetch_player_stats_footywire(), fetch_player_stats_afltables(), fetch_player_stats_fryzigg() can be called directly and return data from AFL website, AFL Tables and Squiggle, respectively.

fetch_player_stats(
  season = NULL,
  round_number = NULL,
  comp = "AFLM",
  source = "AFL",
  ...
)

fetch_player_stats_afl(season = NULL, round_number = NULL, comp = "AFLM")

fetch_player_stats_afltables(
  season = NULL,
  round_number = NULL,
  rescrape = FALSE,
  rescrape_start_season = NULL
)

fetch_player_stats_fryzigg(season = NULL, round_number = NULL, comp = "AFLM")

fetch_player_stats_footywire(
  season = NULL,
  round_number = NULL,
  check_existing = TRUE
)

Arguments

season

Season in YYYY format, defaults to NULL which returns the year corresponding the Sys.Date()

round_number

Round number, defaults to NULL which returns latest round

comp

One of "AFLM" (default), "AFLW", "VFL", "VFLW", "WAFL", "U18B" or "U18G." Not all data sources will have non-AFL data

source

One of "AFL" (default), "footywire", "fryzigg", "afltables", "squiggle"

...

Optional parameters passed onto various functions depending on source.

rescrape

Logical, defaults to FALSE. Determines if we should re-scrape data for a given season. By default, we return cached data which is much faster. Re-scraping is slow but sometimes needed if historical data has changed.

rescrape_start_season

Numeric, if rescrape = TRUE, which season should we start scraping from. Defaults to minimum value of season

check_existing

logical, should we check existing data. This will likely be removed in future version as it takes a long time to re-scrape data

Value

A Tibble with the player stats from the relevant season and round.

See also

  • fetch_player_stats_footywire for Footywire data.

  • fetch_player_stats_afltables for AFL Tables data.

  • fetch_player_stats_fryzigg for Fryzigg data.

Other fetch fixture functions: fetch_fixture()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Return data for whole season from footywire
fetch_player_stats(source = "footywire")

# This is equivalent to
fetch_player_stats_footywire()

# Currently there is no AFLW data and will return a warning
fetch_player_stats(2020, comp = "AFLW", source = "footywire")

# Different sources
fetch_player_stats(2015, round = 5, source = "footywire")
fetch_player_stats(2015, round = 5, source = "fryzigg")

# Directly call functions for each source
fetch_player_stats_afltables(2020)
fetch_fixture_fryzigg(2020)
fetch_player_stats_footywire(2020)
}