nflfastR
A Set of Functions to Efficiently Scrape NFL Play by Play Data (by mrcaseb)
nflscraPy
Datasets and Scraping Functions for NFL Data (by blnkpagelabs)
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nflfastR
Posts with mentions or reviews of nflfastR.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Data for players on field play-by-play?
nflfastr has an extensive library of PlayByPlay, Roster, and Gamelog data that you can access programmatically via R.
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[OC] Cumulative Win Probability Added: AFC Bubble
For more on all this, here's the source of my data: {nflfastR}
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[OC] Cumulative Win Probability Added - AFC East, 2022
Source: {nflfastR} play-by-play and win probability models.
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Is there anywhere I can find the standard deviation of points and yards for each team in each game?
It's been superseded by nflfastR at least for the play by play stuff. You can also download the data directly, rather than using the scraping functions. https://github.com/nflverse/nfldata
- Best Data Source for NFL Play-by-Play
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Metric for how many different receivers quarterbacks utilize?
nflfastR is a database with play by play data going back to 1999, it has everything you'd need to create such a metric, but you gotta write the query yourself :)
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[OC] Superbowl Probability of Winning: Play-by-play
Data Source: nflfastr library: https://github.com/mrcaseb/nflfastR
nflscraPy
Posts with mentions or reviews of nflscraPy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Data for players on field play-by-play?
nflscraPy has an extensive library of other NFL Game and Player stats that you can download manually.
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PFR snap count calulation
Gamebook PDF Link: https://static.www.nfl.com/gamecenter/70e5ba20-9aaa-11ed-99e5-6b206f74937e.pdf Playtime Percentage Data (and more) can be downloaded in CSV from nflscraPy as well. https://github.com/blnkpagelabs/nflscraPy https://github.com/blnkpagelabs/nflscraPy/releases/tag/SnapCounts
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Is there a database of NFL box score over the past ten years?
You can use the release files in nflscraPy to download a variety of CSVs that might help:
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nflscraPy – Data Scraper and Datasets for the NFL
Inspired by the creators nflscrapR and nflfastR I decided to construct nflscraPy, a collection of functions to scrape NFL Data from Pro Football Reference – and hopefully an expanding number of data sources/sets.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nflfastR and nflscraPy you can also consider the following projects:
nfldata - NFL Data (by Lee Sharpe)
nflfastpy - Python package for loading nflfastR play by play data
nflverse-data - Automated nflverse data repository
nflfastpy - Python package for loading nflfastR play by play data
shiny.i18n - Shiny applications internationalization made easy
nflscrapR-data - Data files (.csv) accessed with nflscrapR and summarized at the player-level
parsel - parallel execution of RSelenium
nfl_data_py - Python code for working with NFL play by play data.
rtypeform - An R interface to the 'typeform' API.
littler - A scripting and command-line front-end for GNU R
xlsx - An R package to interact with Excel files using the Apache POI java library