Load NCAA baseball groups (divisions and conferences) from the SportsDataverse data repo

One row per NCAA baseball group lineage (divisions I-III and their conferences), keyed by the SportsDataverse group id. Published to the ncaa_baseball_groups release tag on the sportsdataverse-data releases by sdv-reference-data. Season keys are the spring year (2026 = the spring 2026 season).

Usage

load_ncaa_baseball_groups(..., 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}; one id per lineage across renames.
level	character	Group level: league, subdivision, conference or division.
first_season	integer	First season with at least one member.
last_season	integer	Last season with at least one member.
notes	character	Lineage decisions and source caveats.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_baseball_groups())
#> ── NCAA baseball groups from the SportsDataverse data repo ─────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-30 14:28:18 UTC
#> # A tibble: 107 × 6
#>    league        group_id           level first_season last_season notes
#>    <chr>         <chr>              <chr>        <int>       <int> <chr>
#>  1 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:acc  conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  2 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:amcc conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  3 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:ame… conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  4 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:ame… conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  5 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:ame… conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  6 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:asc  conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  7 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:asun conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  8 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:atl… conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#>  9 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:atl… conf…         2019        2026 NCAA…
#> 10 ncaa_baseball ncaa_baseball:big… conf…         2010        2026 NCAA…
#> # ℹ 97 more rows
# }