Scrape NCAA baseball Team Player Stats (Division I, II, and III)

This function allows the user to obtain batting, pitching, or fielding statistics for any school affiliated with the NCAA at the division I, II, or III levels. The function acquires data from the NCAA's website (stats.ncaa.org) and returns a tibble.

Usage

ncaa_team_player_stats(
  team_id,
  year = most_recent_ncaa_baseball_season(),
  type = "batting",
  ...
)

Arguments

team_id

The numerical ID that the NCAA website uses to identify a team

year

The season for which data should be returned, in the form of "YYYY". Years currently available: 2013-2017.

type

A string indicating whether to return "batting", "pitching", or "fielding" statistics

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function like httr.

Value

A data frame with the following variables. The exact stat columns vary by type (batting / pitching / fielding); the table below shows the batting (type = "batting") columns.

col_name	types	description
year	integer	Season (4-digit year).
team_name	character	Team name.
team_id	numeric	Team NCAA id.
conference_id	integer	Conference identifier.
conference	character	Conference name.
division	numeric	NCAA division (1, 2, 3).
player_id	integer	stats.ncaa.org player identifier.
player_url	character	Full stats.ncaa.org url for the player page.
player_name	character	Player name.
Yr	character	Academic class/year (Fr, So, Jr, Sr).
Pos	character	Primary fielding position.
Jersey	character	Jersey number (the site's "#" column).
GP	numeric	Games played.
GS	numeric	Games started.
BA	numeric	Batting average.
OBPct	numeric	On-base percentage.
SlgPct	numeric	Slugging percentage.
R	numeric	Runs scored.
AB	numeric	At-bats.
H	numeric	Hits.
2B	numeric	Doubles.
3B	numeric	Triples.
TB	numeric	Total bases.
HR	numeric	Home runs.
RBI	numeric	Runs batted in.
BB	numeric	Walks (bases on balls).
HBP	numeric	Hit by pitch.
SF	numeric	Sacrifice flies.
SH	numeric	Sacrifice hits (bunts).
K	numeric	Strikeouts.
DP	numeric	Grounded into double plays (site's "OPP DP").
CS	numeric	Caught stealing.
Picked	numeric	Times picked off.
SB	numeric	Stolen bases.
RBI2out	numeric	Runs batted in with two outs.

Details

Live usage (reads stats.ncaa.org, which is behind Akamai bot protection and needs the optional chromote + Google Chrome browser fallback, so it is shown here rather than as a runnable example):

ncaa_team_player_stats(team_id = 234, year = 2023, type = "batting")