A helper function that returns the upcoming NFL regular season week based on either
the nflverse schedules file (as found in load_schedules()
)
or some date-based heuristics (number of weeks since the first Monday of September)
Details
Note that the date heuristic will count a new week starting on Thursdays, while the schedule-based method will count a new week after the last game of the previous week, e.g. after MNF is completed. Tan and Ben argued for a while about this.
See also
Other Date utils:
most_recent_season()
Examples
{
# \donttest{
try({ # schedules file as per default requires online access
get_current_week()
})
# }
# using the date method works offline
get_current_week(use_date = TRUE)
}
#> [1] 5