Load MLB group names and parents by season from the SportsDataverse data repo

One row per MLB group per season it existed, with the name, abbreviation and parent group as of that season (not today's). Published to the mlb_groups release tag on the sportsdataverse-data releases. Season keys are the single calendar year.

Usage

load_mlb_group_seasons(..., dbConnection = NULL, tablename = NULL)

Arguments

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the data into a database.

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect()

tablename

The name of the data table within the database

Value

A baseballr_data tibble:

col_name	types	description
league	character	League key.
group_id	character	SportsDataverse group id, {league}:{slug}.
season	integer	Season.
level	character	Group level: league, subdivision, conference or division.
name	character	Group name as of that season.
short_name	character	Short name as of that season.
abbreviation	character	Abbreviation as of that season.
parent_group_id	character	Parent group id as of that season (division, conference, subdivision, league).
n_teams	integer	Member teams that season.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_mlb_group_seasons())
#> ── MLB group seasons from the SportsDataverse data repo ────────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-30 14:28:14 UTC
#> # A tibble: 727 × 9
#>    league group_id season level      name        short_name abbreviation
#>    <chr>  <chr>     <int> <chr>      <chr>       <chr>      <chr>       
#>  1 mlb    mlb:al     1901 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  2 mlb    mlb:al     1902 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  3 mlb    mlb:al     1903 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  4 mlb    mlb:al     1904 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  5 mlb    mlb:al     1905 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  6 mlb    mlb:al     1906 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  7 mlb    mlb:al     1907 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  8 mlb    mlb:al     1908 conference American L… American   AL          
#>  9 mlb    mlb:al     1909 conference American L… American   AL          
#> 10 mlb    mlb:al     1910 conference American L… American   AL          
#> # ℹ 717 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: parent_group_id <chr>, n_teams <int>
# }