Loads data on which officials are assigned to oversee a specific game. Data available from 2015 onwards.
Usage
load_officials(
seasons = TRUE,
file_type = getOption("nflreadr.prefer", default = "rds")
)
Arguments
- seasons
a numeric vector specifying what seasons to return, if
TRUE
returns all available data- file_type
One of
c("rds", "qs", "csv", "parquet")
. Can also be set globally withoptions(nflreadr.prefer)
See also
Issues with this data should be filed here: https://github.com/nflverse/nflreadr and it will be triaged appropriately.
Examples
# \donttest{
try({ # prevents cran errors
load_officials()
})
#> ── nflverse officials ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2023-02-02 07:02:37 UTC
#> # A tibble: 15,712 × 9
#> game_id game_key official_n…¹ posit…² jerse…³ offic…⁴ season seaso…⁵ week
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr> <int> <chr> <int>
#> 1 2015091000 56503 Brad Freeman Field … 88 25 2015 REG 1
#> 2 2015091000 56503 Kent Payne Head L… 79 28 2015 REG 1
#> 3 2015091000 56503 Terrence Mi… Back J… 111 139 2015 REG 1
#> 4 2015091000 56503 Tim Podraza Line J… 47 123 2015 REG 1
#> 5 2015091000 56503 Scott Novak Side J… 1 94 2015 REG 1
#> 6 2015091000 56503 Undrey Wash Umpire 96 134 2015 REG 1
#> 7 2015091000 56503 Carl Cheffe… Referee 51 3 2015 REG 1
#> 8 2015091300 56505 Lee Dyer Back J… 27 72 2015 REG 1
#> 9 2015091300 56505 Steve Zimmer Field … 33 116 2015 REG 1
#> 10 2015091300 56505 Mark Hittner Head L… 28 118 2015 REG 1
#> # … with 15,702 more rows, and abbreviated variable names ¹official_name,
#> # ²position, ³jersey_number, ⁴official_id, ⁵season_type
# }