pbp

[widbuntu]

Great stuff. Any thoughts on adding play by play?
https://stats.ncaa.org/contests/6080706/play_by_play

[JeffreyRStevens]

@widbuntu

1. Thanks! How did you find this? I just make it public two days ago and haven't publicized it yet.
2. OK, in the new version I pushed today (0.2.0), I have added a new function match_pbp(). All it does at the moment is extracts a data table for each set's play-by-play information. But I'm happy to hear ideas on how to better parse this data.
3. I've also added two new functions for match-level data. find_team_contests() gets the contest IDs needed to find the match-level data. player_match-stats() extracts the player statistics for both teams in the match. Neither of these is extensively tested though (nor is match_pbp()).
4. FYI--I have renamed team_player_stats() to player_season_stats() (and deprecated it).

Any suggestions are welcome!

[widbuntu]

I had put this together a few years ago: https://github.com/tyler-widdison/ncaavolleyballR. Although I think many things are out dated now that I had done.
For example I used this for the teams: https://stats.ncaa.org/team/search.
Where I could use this:
https://web3.ncaa.org/directory/api/directory/memberList?type=12&sportCode=WVB
or this
https://stats.ncaa.org/game_upload/team_codes.
It's great to see some new options which are up to date 👍

[JeffreyRStevens]

That's awesome! Dang, wish I would have known about your package earlier---both in terms of overlap in functions and the name. Are you thinking about updating and submitting to CRAN? I'm deciding whether to rename my package now.
[Note to self: check GitHub not just CRAN when developing new packages!]

Also, I've pushed a new version (0.3.0) with much better pbp output more similar to yours. The pbp descriptions can be quite messy, so I need to test it a bit more to capture all of the events.

Both the match and php data can now be aggregated for a season with group_stats(). I'll probably work on some more wrappers for this function and/or figure out how to aggregate over seasons.

[widbuntu]

I'm not. I haven't worked on it for a few years and have started pursuing some other things - by all means seems like a good name ;) I think you should use it. Originally I put it together mainly to get the schedule of matches.

Yes the pbp can be messy indeed!

[JeffreyRStevens]

Awesome, thanks so much @widbuntu!

[JeffreyRStevens]

@widbuntu, FYI--the package has been posted on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/package=ncaavolleyballr