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Load Game/Schedule Data

Source: R/load_schedules.R
load_schedules.Rd

This returns game/schedule information as maintained by Lee Sharpe.

Usage

load_schedules(seasons = TRUE)

Arguments

seasons

a numeric vector of seasons to return, default TRUE returns all available data.

Value

A tibble of game information for past and/or future games.

See also

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

dictionary_schedules for the data dictionary as a dataframe

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

Examples

# \donttest{
try({ # prevents cran errors
 load_schedules(2020)
})
#> ── nflverse games and schedules ────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2025-07-17 19:54:38 UTC
#> # A tibble: 269 × 46
#>    game_id  season game_type  week gameday weekday gametime away_team away_score
#>    <chr>     <int> <chr>     <int> <chr>   <chr>   <chr>    <chr>          <int>
#>  1 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Thursd… 20:20    HOU               20
#>  2 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    SEA               38
#>  3 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    CLE                6
#>  4 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    NYJ               17
#>  5 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    LV                34
#>  6 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    CHI               27
#>  7 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    IND               20
#>  8 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    GB                43
#>  9 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    MIA               11
#> 10 2020_01…   2020 REG           1 2020-0… Sunday  13:00    PHI               17
#> # ℹ 259 more rows
#> # ℹ 37 more variables: home_team <chr>, home_score <int>, location <chr>,
#> #   result <int>, total <int>, overtime <int>, old_game_id <chr>, gsis <int>,
#> #   nfl_detail_id <chr>, pfr <chr>, pff <int>, espn <chr>, ftn <int>,
#> #   away_rest <int>, home_rest <int>, away_moneyline <int>,
#> #   home_moneyline <int>, spread_line <dbl>, away_spread_odds <int>,
#> #   home_spread_odds <int>, total_line <dbl>, under_odds <int>, …
# }