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Load Players

Source: R/load_players.R
load_players.Rd

Load a dataframe of player-level information, including IDs and other mostly-immutable data (birthdates, college, draft position etc.)

Usage

load_players(file_type = getOption("nflreadr.prefer", default = "rds"))

Arguments

file_type

One of c("rds", "qs", "csv", "parquet"). Can also be set globally with options(nflreadr.prefer)

Value

A tibble with one row per player.

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_players()
})
#> ── nflverse players ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2025-06-01 02:15:12 UTC
#> # A tibble: 21,421 × 32
#>    first_name last_name position esb_id    gsis_id    display_name   rookie_year
#>    <chr>      <chr>     <chr>    <chr>     <chr>      <chr>                <int>
#>  1 'Omar      Ellison   WR       ELL711319 00-0004866 'Omar Ellison           NA
#>  2 A'Shawn    Robinson  DE       ROB367960 00-0032889 A'Shawn Robin…        2016
#>  3 A.J.       Arcuri    T        ARC716900 00-0037845 A.J. Arcuri           2022
#>  4 A.J.       Barner    TE       BAR235889 00-0039793 A.J. Barner           2024
#>  5 Arlandus   Bouye     CB       BOU651714 00-0030228 A.J. Bouye            2013
#>  6 Arthur     Brown     WR       BRO413223 00-0035676 A.J. Brown            2019
#>  7 Aaron      Cann      G        CAN364949 00-0032255 A.J. Cann             2015
#>  8 A.J.       Cole      P        COL214396 00-0035190 A.J. Cole             2019
#>  9 A.J.       Cruz      WR       CRU779150 00-0032270 A.J. Cruz               NA
#> 10 A.J.       Dalton    T        DAL649400 00-0031108 A.J. Dalton             NA
#> # ℹ 21,411 more rows
#> # ℹ 25 more variables: college_conference <chr>, current_team_id <chr>,
#> #   draft_club <chr>, draft_number <int>, draftround <int>, entry_year <int>,
#> #   football_name <chr>, gsis_it_id <int>, headshot <chr>, jersey_number <int>,
#> #   position_group <chr>, short_name <chr>, smart_id <chr>, status <chr>,
#> #   status_description_abbr <chr>, status_short_description <chr>,
#> #   team_abbr <chr>, uniform_number <chr>, height <dbl>, weight <int>, …
# }