Load NCAA baseball team division and conference memberships by season from the SportsDataverse data repo

One row per NCAA baseball team per season, with the division (subdivision_id) and conference it played in that season. team_id is the stats.ncaa.org org id. Published to the ncaa_baseball_groups release tag on the sportsdataverse-data releases, one file per season.

Usage

load_ncaa_baseball_team_group_seasons(
  seasons = most_recent_ncaa_baseball_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit seasons (the spring year), or TRUE for every published season. (Min: 2010)

...

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.
season	integer	Season.
team_id	character	ESPN team id where ESPN covers the team, otherwise the league's own id.
team_id_source	character	Id system of team_id (e.g. espn, mlb, ncaa_org).
team_name	character	Team name as of that season.
subdivision_id	character	SportsDataverse subdivision group id; NA where the level does not apply.
conference_id	character	SportsDataverse conference group id (for MLB, the American or National League).
division_id	character	SportsDataverse division group id; NA where the level does not apply.
source	character	Source the membership came from.
sources_agree	logical	Whether a second source agrees; NA when only one source covers the season.
notes	character	Notes, e.g. the league's own team id.

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(load_ncaa_baseball_team_group_seasons(seasons = 2025))
#> ── NCAA baseball team group seasons from the SportsDataverse data repo ─
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-09-30 14:30:13 UTC
#> # A tibble: 943 × 11
#>    league        season team_id team_id_source team_name  subdivision_id
#>    <chr>          <int> <chr>   <chr>          <chr>      <chr>         
#>  1 ncaa_baseball   2025 10      ncaa_org       UAH        ncaa_baseball…
#>  2 ncaa_baseball   2025 100     ncaa_org       Cal State… ncaa_baseball…
#>  3 ncaa_baseball   2025 1000    ncaa_org       Carson-Ne… ncaa_baseball…
#>  4 ncaa_baseball   2025 1001    ncaa_org       Catawba    ncaa_baseball…
#>  5 ncaa_baseball   2025 1004    ncaa_org       Central A… ncaa_baseball…
#>  6 ncaa_baseball   2025 1009    ncaa_org       Central O… ncaa_baseball…
#>  7 ncaa_baseball   2025 101     ncaa_org       CSUN       ncaa_baseball…
#>  8 ncaa_baseball   2025 1010    ncaa_org       Central W… ncaa_baseball…
#>  9 ncaa_baseball   2025 1013    ncaa_org       Charlesto… ncaa_baseball…
#> 10 ncaa_baseball   2025 1014    ncaa_org       Col. of C… ncaa_baseball…
#> # ℹ 933 more rows
#> # ℹ 5 more variables: conference_id <chr>, division_id <chr>,
#> #   source <chr>, sources_agree <lgl>, notes <chr>
# }