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Load Snap Counts from PFR

Source: R/load_snap_counts.R
load_snap_counts.Rd

Loads game level snap counts stats provided by Pro Football Reference starting with the 2012 season.

Usage

load_snap_counts(
  seasons = most_recent_season(),
  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 with options(nflreadr.prefer)

Value

A tibble of game-level snap counts provided by Pro Football Reference.

See also

https://nflreadr.nflverse.com/articles/dictionary_snap_counts.html for the web data dictionary

dictionary_snap_counts for the data dictionary as bundled within the package

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

Examples

# \donttest{
  try({ # prevents CRAN errors
  load_snap_counts()
  })
#> ── nflverse snap counts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2025-09-12 12:43:37 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1,574 × 17
#>    game_id      pfr_game_id season game_type  week player pfr_player_id position
#>    <chr>        <chr>        <int> <chr>     <int> <chr>  <chr>         <chr>   
#>  1 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Kelvi… BankKe01      T       
#>  2 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Cesar… RuizCe00      C       
#>  3 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Dillo… RaduDi00      OL      
#>  4 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Erik … McCoEr01      C       
#>  5 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Spenc… RattSp00      QB      
#>  6 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Juwan… JohnJu02      TE      
#>  7 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Rashi… ShahRa00      WR      
#>  8 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Chris… OlavCh00      WR      
#>  9 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Alvin… KamaAl00      RB      
#> 10 2025_01_ARI… 202509070n…   2025 REG           1 Brand… CookBr00      WR      
#> # ℹ 1,564 more rows
#> # ℹ 9 more variables: team <chr>, opponent <chr>, offense_snaps <dbl>,
#> #   offense_pct <dbl>, defense_snaps <dbl>, defense_pct <dbl>, st_snaps <dbl>,
#> #   st_pct <dbl>, .progress <lgl>
# }