nwhlR is an R package for working with NWHL play-by-play data. This package can be used to scrape play by play data from the NWHL website, and additionally compile the data into player and team summaries.

First install the package devtools if you haven't already

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jflancer/nwhlR")

This package consists of 5 main functions.

To scrape for game ids:

• get_id_date gets all game ids for a specified date
• get_id_schedule gets all game ids for a specified season and team(s)

Additionally, game ids can be found in the url when browsing games, for example https://www.nwhl.zone/game/show/14668259?subseason=327151&referrer=2758855.

When viewing the webpages, the unique game id is the first string of digits, in this case 14668259

To scrape for play by play

• get_play_by_play gets the play by play data given one or multiple game ids

To compile play by play

• get_player_summary converts the play by play data into a game summary for each player
• get_team_summary converts the play by play data into a team summary for both teams

The easiest way to use this package is to follow the format

# Get the game ids using one of two functions or this could be manual
game_ids <- get_id_date(Season = "20182019", Year = "2018", Month = "12", Day = "09")
# game_ids <- get_id_schedule(Season = "20182019", teams = "BUF")
pbp_data <- get_play_by_play(game_ids)
player_stats <- get_player_summary(pbp_data)
team_stats <- get_team_summary(pbp_data)

This function takes in several parameters and will return a vector of game ids for a given date

• Season | an 8 digit season, ex. "20182019"
• Year | a four digit year parameter yyyy, ex. "2018"
• Month | The specified month, must be using format mm, ex. April = "04"
• Day | The specified date, must be using format dd, ex. the eighth = "08"

This function returns all game ids for given teams in a given season. Default is set to 20182019, and all teams.

• Season | an 8 digit season, ex. "20182019"
• Teams | the team abbreviations used by the NWHL- as follows "BOS", "BUF", "CTW", "MET", "MIN"

This function will return a tidy play-by-play file given a single, or multiple game ids

• game_ids | vector of game ids in either character or numeric format

This function will give you player stats for all games specified in the play-by-play.

• pbp_df | dataframe consisting of play by play data from get_play_by_play

This function will give you team stats for all games specified in the play-by-play

• pbp_df | dataframe consisting of play by play data from get_play_by_play