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Load Rosters

Source: R/load_rosters.R
load_rosters.Rd

Load Rosters

Usage

load_rosters(
  seasons = most_recent_season(roster = TRUE),
  file_type = getOption("nflreadr.prefer", default = "rds")
)

Arguments

seasons

a numeric vector of seasons to return, defaults to returning this year's data if it is March or later. If set to TRUE, will return all available data. Data available back to 1920.

file_type

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

Value

A tibble of season-level roster data.

See also

https://nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/dictionary_rosters.html for a web version of the data dictionary

dictionary_rosters for the data dictionary as a dataframe

Issues with this data should be filed here: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data

Examples

# \donttest{
try({ # prevents cran errors
  load_rosters(2020)
})
#> ── nflverse roster data ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2023-09-13 01:04:45 UTC
#> # A tibble: 3,068 × 36
#>    season team  position depth_chart_position jersey_number status full_name    
#>     <int> <chr> <chr>    <chr>                        <int> <chr>  <chr>        
#>  1   2020 IND   K        K                                4 UFA    Adam Vinatie…
#>  2   2020 TB    QB       QB                              12 ACT    Tom Brady    
#>  3   2020 NO    QB       QB                               9 ACT    Drew Brees   
#>  4   2020 HOU   QB       QB                               3 INA    Josh McCown  
#>  5   2020 LV    TE       TE                              82 ACT    Jason Witten 
#>  6   2020 KC    LB       OLB                             94 UFA    Terrell Suggs
#>  7   2020 DET   LS       LS                              48 ACT    Don Muhlbach 
#>  8   2020 PHI   OL       T                               71 RES    Jason Peters 
#>  9   2020 ATL   QB       QB                               8 ACT    Matt Schaub  
#> 10   2020 ARI   P        P                                4 ACT    Andy Lee     
#> # ℹ 3,058 more rows
#> # ℹ 29 more variables: first_name <chr>, last_name <chr>, birth_date <date>,
#> #   height <dbl>, weight <int>, college <chr>, gsis_id <chr>, espn_id <chr>,
#> #   sportradar_id <chr>, yahoo_id <chr>, rotowire_id <chr>, pff_id <chr>,
#> #   pfr_id <chr>, fantasy_data_id <chr>, sleeper_id <chr>, years_exp <int>,
#> #   headshot_url <chr>, ngs_position <chr>, week <int>, game_type <chr>,
#> #   status_description_abbr <chr>, football_name <chr>, esb_id <chr>, …
# }