collegebaseball is a package written for R focused on the acquistion and analysis of college baseball data. It
includes functions for scraping stats and schedules in the NCAA (DI, DII, DIII), as well as (in the future) NAIA and Junior College (NJCAA, NWAC, 3C2A)
You can install collegebaseball from Github using the following code:
# using the devtools package:
if (!requireNamespace('devtools', quietly = TRUE)){
install.packages('devtools')
}
devtools::install_github(repo = "robert-frey/collegebaseball")Below are some examples of what you can (currently) do with the collegebaseball package.
Acquire new team IDs:
library(collegebaseball)
ncaa_school_id_lookup(team_name = "Tampa", season = 2024)## A tibble: 1 × 8
## team_id year team_name conference_id conference division season_id prev_team_id
## <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 574455 2024 Tampa 919 Sunshine State 2 16580 689
Acquire hitting, pitching, or fielding stats:
library(collegebaseball)
ncaa_stats(team_id = 574455, year = 2024, type = "fielding")## # A tibble: 35 × 26
## year team_name conference division Jersey player_name Yr Pos GP GS PO A E FldPct CI PB SBA CSB IDP TP
## <int> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 28 Matthew Fo… So C 6 0 13 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
## 2 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 21 Beckett Wh… Jr P 10 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
## 3 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 16 Macalliste… Jr INF 39 18 38 60 2 0.98 0 0 0 0 11 0
## 4 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 12 Alex Canney Jr P 19 19 3 10 2 0.867 0 0 16 4 0 0
## 5 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 14 Santiago G… Sr C 50 48 275 21 7 0.977 1 2 32 10 1 0
## 6 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 30 T.J. Palma Sr OF 29 3 12 0 2 0.857 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 7 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 36 Carson Caso Jr P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
## 8 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 6 Parker Sch… Sr C 9 0 15 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
## 9 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 9 Anthony Nu… Jr 3B 57 56 38 114 10 0.938 0 0 0 0 8 0
## 10 2024 Tampa Sunshine State 2 10 Nico Salad… Jr SS 60 54 68 156 13 0.945 0 0 0 0 32 0
## # ℹ 25 more rows