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[**`hoopR`**](https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org/) is an R package for
working with men’s basketball data.

The package has functions to access **live play by play and box score**
data from ESPN with shot locations when available. As of version 1.3.0,
[**`hoopR`**](https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org/) is also a full NBA
Stats API wrapper with 127 functions added in this release.

It is additionally a scraping and aggregating interface for Ken
Pomeroy’s men’s college basketball statistics website,
[kenpom.com](https://kenpom.com/). It provides users with an active
subscription the capability to scrape the website tables and analyze the
data for themselves.

## Installation

You can install the CRAN version of
[**`hoopR`**](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=hoopR) with:

``` r
install.packages("hoopR")
```

You can install the released version of
[**`hoopR`**](https://github.com/sportsdataverse/hoopR/) from
[GitHub](https://github.com/sportsdataverse/hoopR) with:

``` r
# You can install using the pak package using the following code:
if (!requireNamespace('pak', quietly = TRUE)){
  install.packages('pak')
}
pak::pak("sportsdataverse/hoopR")
```

## Quick Start

### **NBA full play-by-play seasons (2002-2026) ~ 1-2 minutes**

``` r
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
  nba_pbp <- hoopR::load_nba_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()
```

    ## 2.85 sec elapsed

    ## 519304 rows of NBA play-by-play data from 1069 games.

### **Men’s college basketball full play-by-play seasons (2006-2026) ~ 2-3 minutes**

``` r
tictoc::tic()
progressr::with_progress({
  mbb_pbp <-  hoopR::load_mbb_pbp()
})
tictoc::toc()
```

    ## 9.94 sec elapsed

    ## 2902736 rows of men's college basketball play-by-play data from 6246 games.

## **Documentation**

For more information on the package and function reference, please see
the [**`hoopR`** documentation
website](https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org).

## **Breaking Changes**

[**Full News on
Releases**](https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org/news/index.html)

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## **Our Authors**

- Saiem Gilani (@saiemgilani)
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## **Our Contributors (they’re awesome)**

- Jason Lee (@theFirmAISports)
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## **Citations**

To cite the [**`hoopR`**](https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org) R package
in publications, use:

BibTex Citation

``` bibtex
@misc{gilani_2021_hoopR,
  author = {Gilani, Saiem},
  title = {hoopR: The SportsDataverse's R Package for Men's Basketball Data.},
  url = {https://hoopR.sportsdataverse.org},
  year = {2021}
}
```
