baseballr 1.6.0

Primarily focused on parameter changes to the fg_*() functions to allow for more flexible data retrieval. See below for details.

The parameters are now as follows for the leaderboard functions:

• age (integer) Age of players
• pos (character) Position of players, defaults to "all". To exclude pitchers, use "np".
• stats (character) Statistic to return. Defaults to "bat".
• lg (character) League to return. Defaults to "all". Options are "al", "nl", or "all".
• qual (character) Whether you want only batters/pitchers that qualified in a given - season, or the minimum number of plate appearances for inclusion. If you only want - qualified hitters, use qual. If a minimum number of plate appearaces/innings - pitched, use the number desired. Defaults to "y".
• startseason (character) Season for which you want to scrape the data.
• endseason (character) Last season for which you want data.
• startdate (character) Start date for which you want data.
• enddate (character) End date for which you want data.
• month (character) Month for which you want data.
• hand (character) Handedness of batter. Options are "L", "R", or "B". Empty string - returns all.
• team (character) Teams for which you want data, comma separated.
• pageitems (character) Number of items per page.
• pagenum (character) Page number.
• ind (character) Whether or not to break the seasons out individual, or roll them up together. 1 = split seasons, 0 = aggregate seasons.
• rost (character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include, 0 = - exclude.
• players (character) Whether or not to include players on the roster. 1 = include only active roster players, 0 = exclude.
• type (character) Defaults to 8, which is the standard leaderboard. The values for - the leaderboards appear to go to from type = 0 to 48+, which correspond to links - on the leaderboard page.
• postseason (logical) Whether or not to include postseason data. TRUE = include postseason, FALSE = exclude postseason.
• sortdir (character) Sort direction. Options are "asc" or "desc" or "default".
• sortstat (character) Sort by stat. Default is "WAR".

This change affects the following functions:

• fg_team_batter()
• fg_team_pitcher()
• fg_team_fielder() (new function)
• fg_batter_leaders()
• fg_pitcher_leaders()
• fg_fielder_leaders() (new function)

baseballr v1.5.0

Major NCAA function changes

New Functions

Adds the following NCAA baseball functions:

• ncaa_teams()
• load_ncaa_baseball_teams()
• load_ncaa_baseball_season_ids()
• load_ncaa_baseball_schedule()
• load_ncaa_baseball_pbp()
• ncaa_pbp() (see below)
• ncaa_roster() (see below)
• ncaa_team_player_stats() (see below)

Parameter Changes

• ncaa_*() functions now return team_id and team_name instead of school_id and school
• ncaa_*() functions now uniformly use team_id instead of teamid, year (vs. team_year). This affects the following functions:
• ncaa_roster()
• ncaa_schedule_info()
• ncaa_park_factor()
• ncaa_team_player_stats()
• ncaa_lineups() function removes the year parameter (was unnecessary)
  Add proxy rlang dots option for passing httr::use_proxy()`` option to ncaa_*()``` functions

Function Aliasing

• ncaa_baseball_pbp() has been aliased to ncaa_pbp() for naming consistency
• ncaa_baseball_roster() has been aliased to ncaa_roster() for naming consistency
• ncaa_scrape() has been aliased to ncaa_team_player_stats() for more descriptive naming

Notes

ncaa_schedule_info() runs much slower because it is gathering the information on all of the game play-by-play URLs for each game to get a proper game_pbp_id link as opposed to the contest_id link alone. These additional values are returned as game_pbp_id and game_pbp_url which can also now be used in the ncaa_pbp() function.

Other Fixes

• chadwick_player_lu() function updated to address data source change
• Under the hood fixes for mlb_venues(), fg_team_batter(), fg_team_pitcher(), fg_batter_leaders(), fg_pitcher_leaders(), chadwick_player_lu()

baseballr 1.3.0

• Vignette contributed by @camdenk, Using Statcast Pitch Data.
• sptrc_league_payrolls() function added (contributed by @camdenk)
• sptrc_team_active_payrolls() function added (contributed by @camdenk)
• fg_team_batter() function added (contributed by @camdenk)
• fg_team_pitcher() function added (contributed by @camdenk)
• Updates documentation per CRAN's request

baseballr 1.2.0 - Hit the CRAN, get the bands

baseballr v1.2.0 is now on CRAN

• Removed two pitchRx-dependent functions, updated retrosheet function and documentation
• Removed edge_scrape() and edge_scrape_split() from package. See data-raw/archived/ for the last updated script. These may be re-visited at a later date with improved data repository maturity.
• Retrosheet functions updated to use tempdir()/tempfile() methods by default. Will need to specify a working directory to enable old functionality in which files are written to disk permanently. New default functionality is to return a named list with two tibbles per year specified: 'events' and 'rosters'.

~82 MLB Stats API functions added

name	file
mlb_all_star_ballots()	R/mlb_all_star_ballots.R
mlb_all_star_final_vote()	R/mlb_all_star_final_vote.R
mlb_all_star_write_ins()	R/mlb_all_star_write_ins.R
mlb_attendance()	R/mlb_attendance.R
mlb_awards()	R/mlb_awards.R
mlb_awards_recipient()	R/mlb_awards_recipient.R
mlb_baseball_stats()	R/mlb_baseball_stats.R
mlb_conferences()	R/mlb_conferences.R
mlb_divisions()	R/mlb_divisions.R
mlb_draft_latest()	R/mlb_draft_latest.R
mlb_draft_prospects()	R/mlb_draft_prospects.R
mlb_event_types()	R/mlb_event_types.R
mlb_fielder_detail_types()	R/mlb_fielder_detail_types.R
mlb_game_changes()	R/mlb_game_changes.R
mlb_game_content()	R/mlb_game_content.R
mlb_game_context_metrics()	R/mlb_game_context_metrics.R
mlb_game_linescore()	R/mlb_game_linescore.R
mlb_game_pace()	R/mlb_game_pace.R
mlb_game_status_codes()	R/mlb_game_status_codes.R
mlb_game_timecodes()	R/mlb_game_timecodes.R
mlb_game_types()	R/mlb_game_types.R
mlb_game_wp()	R/mlb_game_wp.R
mlb_high_low_stats()	R/mlb_high_low_stats.R
mlb_high_low_types()	R/mlb_high_low_types.R
mlb_hit_trajectories()	R/mlb_hit_trajectories.R
mlb_homerun_derby()	R/mlb_homerun_derby.R
mlb_homerun_derby_bracket()	R/mlb_homerun_derby.R
mlb_homerun_derby_players()	R/mlb_homerun_derby.R
mlb_job_types()	R/mlb_job_types.R
mlb_jobs()	R/mlb_jobs.R
mlb_jobs_datacasters()	R/mlb_jobs_datacasters.R
mlb_jobs_official_scorers()	R/mlb_jobs_official_scorers.R
mlb_jobs_umpires()	R/mlb_jobs_umpires.R
mlb_languages()	R/mlb_languages.R
mlb_league()	R/mlb_league.R
mlb_league_leader_types()	R/mlb_league_leader_types.R
mlb_logical_events()	R/mlb_logical_events.R
mlb_metrics()	R/mlb_metrics.R
mlb_pbp_diff()	R/mlb_pbp_diff.R
mlb_people()	R/mlb_people.R
mlb_people_free_agents()	R/mlb_people_free_agents.R
mlb_pitch_codes()	R/mlb_pitch_codes.R
mlb_pitch_types()	R/mlb_pitch_types.R
mlb_player_game_stats()	R/mlb_player_game_stats.R
mlb_player_game_stats_current()	R/mlb_player_game_stats_current.R
mlb_player_status_codes()	R/mlb_player_status_codes.R
mlb_positions()	R/mlb_positions.R
mlb_probables()	R/mlb_probables.R
mlb_review_reasons()	R/mlb_review_reasons.R
mlb_roster_types()	R/mlb_roster_types.R
mlb_rosters()	R/mlb_rosters.R
mlb_runner_detail_types()	R/mlb_runner_detail_types.R
mlb_schedule_event_types()	R/mlb_schedule_event_types.R
mlb_schedule_games_tied()	R/mlb_schedule_games_tied.R
mlb_schedule_postseason()	R/mlb_schedule_postseason.R
mlb_schedule_postseason_series()	R/mlb_schedule_postseason_series.R
mlb_seasons()	R/mlb_seasons.R
mlb_seasons_all()	R/mlb_seasons_all.R
mlb_situation_codes()	R/mlb_situation_codes.R
mlb_sky()	R/mlb_sky.R
mlb_sports()	R/mlb_sports.R
mlb_sports_info()	R/mlb_sports_info.R
mlb_sports_players()	R/mlb_sports_players.R
mlb_standings()	R/mlb_standings.R
mlb_standings_types()	R/mlb_standings_types.R
mlb_stat_groups()	R/mlb_stat_groups.R
mlb_stat_types()	R/mlb_stat_types.R
mlb_stats()	R/mlb_stats.R
mlb_stats_leaders()	R/mlb_stats_leaders.R
mlb_team_affiliates()	R/mlb_team_affiliates.R
mlb_team_alumni()	R/mlb_team_alumni.R
mlb_team_coaches()	R/mlb_team_coaches.R
mlb_team_history()	R/mlb_team_history.R
mlb_team_info()	R/mlb_team_info.R
mlb_team_leaders()	R/mlb_team_leaders.R
mlb_team_personnel()	R/mlb_team_personnel.R
mlb_team_stats()	R/mlb_team_stats.R
mlb_teams()	R/mlb_teams.R
mlb_teams_stats()	R/mlb_teams_stats.R
mlb_teams_stats_leaders()	R/mlb_teams_stats_leaders.R
mlb_venues()	R/mlb_venues.R
mlb_wind_direction_codes()	R/mlb_wind_direction_codes.R

• baseballr, as of v1.1.0, is a full MLB Stats API wrapper with access to 85+ endpoints