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cfbfastR: Access College Football Play by Play Data

A utility to quickly obtain clean and tidy college football data. Serves as a wrapper around the <https://collegefootballdata.com/> API and provides functions to access live play by play and box score data from ESPN <https://www.espn.com> when available. It provides users the capability to access a plethora of endpoints, and supplement that data with additional information (Expected Points Added/Win Probability added).

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: cli (≥ 3.0.0), data.table (≥ 1.15.0), dplyr (≥ 1.0.0), glue (≥ 1.4.0), httr, janitor, jsonlite, lubridate, magrittr, mgcv (≥ 1.8-33), nnet, progressr (≥ 0.6.0), purrr (≥ 0.3.0), Rcpp (≥ 1.0.7), RcppParallel (≥ 5.1.4), rlang (≥ 0.4.10), stringr (≥ 1.4.0), tibble (≥ 3.0), tidyr (≥ 1.2.0)
Suggests: crayon (≥ 1.3.4), curl, DBI, ggplot2, ggrepel, qs (≥ 0.25.1), rmarkdown, RSQLite, stats, stringi, testthat, usethis (≥ 1.6.0), xgboost (≥ 1.1)
Published: 2025-09-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.cfbfastR
Author: Saiem Gilani [cre, aut], Akshay Easwaran [aut], Jared Lee [aut], Eric Hess [aut], Michael Egle [ctb], Nate Manzo [ctb], Jason DeLoach [ctb], Tej Seth [ctb], Conor McQuiston [ctb], Tan Ho [ctb], Keegan Abdoo [ctb], Matt Spencer [ctb], Sebastian Carl [ctb], John Edwards [ctb], Brad Hill [ctb]
Maintainer: Saiem Gilani <saiem.gilani at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/sportsdataverse/cfbfastR/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://cfbfastR.sportsdataverse.org/, https://github.com/sportsdataverse/cfbfastR
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: SportsAnalytics
CRAN checks: cfbfastR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: cfbfastR.html , cfbfastR.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: cfbfastR_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): cfbfastR_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): cfbfastR_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): cfbfastR_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): cfbfastR_2.0.0.tgz
Old sources: cfbfastR archive

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