nflreadr 1.3.0

This release introduces several new data functions, some new utilities, and an array of data/function updates.

New Data!

• load_participation() returns new play-level information about what players are on the field, how many players are in the box, and what formation the offense is using. Data from NGS starting 2016 and onward
  
• load_contracts() downloads (historical) player contracts from OverTheCap.com
• load_players() returns player-level information and is the new recommended source (over rosters) for IDs, positions, birthdates etc.
• load_rosters_weekly() provides week-by-week team rosters dating back to 2002.
• load_officials() returns game-level information about which officials are assigned to specific games.

New Functions!

• nflverse_download() downloads all files attached to specified/all releases to a local folder. This facilitates something like arrow::open_dataset() for reading files locally.
• nflverse_releases() lists all releases that can be loaded through nflverse_download()
• load_from_url() exposes a new utility function for loading any csv, rds, qs, parquet URL to memory.

Function Updates!

• load_draft_picks() now has the rest of the career stat fields from PFR
• *sitrep() functions now report package-specific options that are set.
• get_current_week() helper to get the current nfl season week
• load_rosters() now provides season-level rosters dating back to 1920.

Other bugfixes

• moved rbindlist to a helper that manages attributes better
• update dictionary_snap_counts and dictionary_schedules with some missing fields
• rewrite from_url error messages to use cli and improve usefulness
• bump minimum rlang version to 1.0.0
• add piggyback suggested dependency
• Export old class to support S4/DBI/nflfastR::update_db() as if it were a tibble
• Fix exportOldClass so that it supports only data.frame stuff? we have no idea,,,
• options(nflreadr.prefer) defaults to rds now since qs is no longer a required dependency
• clean_player_names() now also removes commas (after optionally using them for convert_lastfirst)
• clean_player_names() now also removes all caps suffixes
• dictionary updates: return labelled.
• .sitrep() exits nicely if no packages are to be investigated. #114
• refactored all the loaders to use load_from_url as primary
• fixed broken example in load_ff_opportunity() documentation. #117

Thank you to @albtree, @john-b-edwards, @mrcaseb, @pranavrajaram, @tanho63, and @tpenney89 for their contributions and feedback on this release!

nflreadr 1.2.0

This release updates all nflverse URLs to use the new nflverse-data repository releases, as well as provides improved pretty-printing methods that tell you when the data was last updated.

nflreadr 1.1.3

This release adds functions and arguments to access new data, along with some backend changes.

New data and functions

• load_ff_opportunity() downloads expected fantasy points data from the ffopportunity package
• load_ff_rankings() gains an "all" parameter to return all available rankings data (weekly archives since 2019)
• load_pfr_advstats() gains a "summary_level" parameter to return season-level data, which has some fields that are not available at the week-level.

Backend

• options(nflreadr.verbose) replaces options(nflreadr.cache_warning) as the best way to silence nflreadr messages.
• Improved data dictionaries for ESPN QBR, Injuries, Trades, Depth Charts, and Combine
• Exported most_recent_season() function
• Updated documentation with improved linking and where to file data issues.
• Sitrep functions have ffopportunity and nflverse packages.
• Pkgdown site upgraded to Bootstrap 5.

Thank you to @armstjc, @Grayhawk34, @john-b-edwards, @mrcaseb, @pranavrajaram, @rogers1000, and @tanho63 for their contributions and feedback on this release!

nflreadr 1.1.2

New Functions

• nflverse_sitrep() and ffverse_sitrep() give a minimal overview of the package dependencies
• Minimum R version bumped to R 3.6.0 - this is the minimum version required to read the current RDS file-version.
• _sitrep() functions receive a small print-related bugfix and colouring improvement.

nflreadr 1.1.1

New Data and Functions

• clean_player_names() and clean_team_abbrs() added - these help standardise player names and team abbreviations based on internal dictionaries.
• load_ff_rankings() now has a type argument and can return "draft" or "week" rankings from the DynastyProcess/data repo.
• clean_homeaway() converts a dataframe of games with columns prefixed with home_ and away_ to a dataframe of teams, renaming to team_ and opponent_ and doubling the rows.
• Added load_pfr_advstats() which provides pass, rush, rec, def additional data for each week.

Bug Fixes

• Add Rcpp and RcppParallel minimum dependencies to fix qs issues.
• Added a message that reminds the user of the caching behavior. The message will be displayed once every 8 hours if the session is interactive.
• Adjusted file location of snap count data

Thank you to @ajreinhard, @brunomioto, @jthomasmock, @mrcaseb, @SCasanova, and @tanho63 for their feedback and contributions to this package!

nflreadr 1.1.0

This release makes some backend changes for speed, reduced dependency footprint, and ease of maintenance.

New Data

• load_player_stats() can now retrieve weekly summaries of kicking data by specifying the stat_type argument to be "kicking".
• load_combine() retrieves NFL combine data (from PFR).

Backend Changes

• Remove progress handling from *_from_url() family of functions and move responsibility to progressively() function decorator instead. See vignette for details.
• Removed dependency on dplyr and purrr in favour of data.table - this hopefully improves speed and reduces the dependency footprint.
• Uses rlang::arg_match0 instead of match.arg (uses rlang explicitly instead of implicitly as a dependency of memoise).

nflreadr 1.0.0

The goal of {nflreadr} is to efficiently load data from nflverse GitHub repositories, and features caching, optional progress updates, and data dictionaries.

At this time, it includes data from the following repositories:

• nflverse/nflfastR-data
• nflverse/nfldata
• nflverse/nflfastR-roster
• nflverse/espnscrapeR-data
• nflverse/pfr_scrapR
• dynastyprocess/data

This will hopefully provide a unified and reliable package for downloading nflverse data that can be extended to the rest of the nflverse and ffverse package families.

Special thanks to Seb, Ben, John, Lee, and Thomas for their contributions to the package and to the data pipelines that this package relies on 🎉