Helper function to load play-by-play data from nflreadr for a specified
time frame.
Arguments
- pbp_db_tbl
Play-by-Play database table name
- season
NFL season to obtain play-by-play data. The season can be defined as a single season,
season = 2024. For multiple seasons, use eitherseason = c(2023,2024)orseason = 2022:2024.- week_min
Minimum week to define whether pulling a range of weeks or the entire season. Use
week_min = 1for the first week of the season, must be an integer.- week_max
Maximum week to define a range of weeks to pull from an NFL season. If not defined, the data will be pulled for all weeks, beginning with
week_min.- pbp_dp
Play-by-Play database path
Details
Helper function to load play-by-play data from from a database. The function
filters the data to include a specified time frame including seasons
and a range of weeks.
If week_max is provided, filter between week_min and week_max
If week_max is not provided, filter for weeks >= week_min to get the
remainder of the season.
This function is typically utilized if the user
desires loading play-by-play data from a database and defined pbp_db and
pbp_db_tbl as strings.
See also
update_db:
Update or Create a nflfastR Play-by-Play Database
get_pbp_data:
Obtain filtered play-by-play data utilizes this helper function