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nflfastR 5.0.0.9000

nflfastR 5.0.0 (2024-11-26)

Major Changes

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

Thank you to @ahmed-cheema, @andrewtek, @guga31bb, @isaactpetersen, @JoeMarino2021, @john-b-edwards, @marcusSasser, @mlounsberry, @morganandrew, @mrcaseb, @mscoop16, @parsnipz, @rjthompson2, and @Useight for their questions, feedback, and contributions towards this release.

nflfastR 4.6.1 (2024-01-09)

Thank you to @andrewtek, @gregalvi86, @Ic4ru5Wing, @JoeMarino2021, @jreddy1990, @marvin3FF, @mrcaseb, @RicShern, @SPNE, and @trivialfis for their questions, feedback, and contributions towards this release.

nflfastR 4.6.0 (2023-10-20)

New Features

Minor Improvements and Bugfixes

Thank you to @903124, @ak47twq, @andrewtek, @darkhark, @dennisbrookner, @marvin3FF, @mistakia, @mrcaseb, @nicholasmendoza22, @rickstarblazer, @RileyJohnson22, and @tanho63 for their questions, feedback, and contributions towards this release.

nflfastR 4.5.1 (2022-12-22)

nflfastR 4.5.0 (2022-11-05)

New (experimental) functions

Bugfixes and Minor Improvements

nflfastR 4.4.0 (2022-08-06)

New Functions, Options, Data

Deprecation

Bugfixes and Minor Improvements

nflfastR 4.3.0 (2021-10-06)

Minor Changes

Bug Fixes

nflfastR 4.2.0 (2021-08-03)

nflfastR 4.1.0 (2021-03-23)

Breaking changes

Functions

New Variables

Minor improvements and fixes

nflfastR 4.0.0 (2021-02-15)

Breaking changes

Changed Functions

New Functions and Variables

Models and Miscellaneous

Minor improvements and fixes

nflfastR 3.2.0 (2020-11-20)

Models

Minor improvements and fixes

nflfastR 3.1.1 (2020-10-22)

New features

Database Function update_db()

New Functions

Minor improvements and fixes

nflfastR 3.0.0 (2020-09-24)

Breaking changes

New features

Minor improvements and fixes

nflfastR 2.2.1 (2020-09-01)

nflfastR 2.2.0

nflfastR 2.1.3

nflfastR 2.1.2

nflfastR 2.1.1

Functions

Miscellaneous

nflfastR 2.1.0

Models

Functions

Bugs

Miscellaneous

nflfastR 2.0.6

nflfastR 2.0.5

nflfastR 2.0.4

nflfastR 2.0.3

nflfastR 2.0.2

nflfastR 2.0.1

nflfastR 2.0.0

Models

Functions

Miscellaneous

Play-by-Play Output

The output has changed a little bit.

The following variables were dropped

| Dropped Variables | Description | |----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | game_key | RS feed game identifier. | | game_time_local | Kickoff time in local time zone. | | iso_time | Kickoff time according ISO 8601. | | game_type | One of 'REG', 'WC', 'DIV', 'CON', 'SB' indicating if a game was a regular season game or one of the playoff rounds. | | site_id | RS feed id for game site. | | site_city | Game site city. | | site_state | Game site state. | | drive_possession_team_abbr | Abbreviation of the possession team in a given drive. | | scoring_team_abbr | Abbreviation of the scoring team if the play was a scoring play. | | scoring_type | String indicating the scoring type. One of 'FG', 'TD', 'PAT', 'SFTY', 'PAT2'. | | alert_play_type | String describing the play type of a play the NFL has listed as alert play. For most of those plays there are highlight clips available through fast_scraper_clips. | | time_of_day | Local time at the beginning of the play. | | yards | Analogue yards_gained but with the kicking team being the possession team (which means that there are many yards gained through kickoffs and punts). | | end_yardline_number | Yardline number within the above given side at the end of the given play. | | end_yardline_side | String indicating the side of the field at the end of the given play. |

The following variables were renamed

| Renamed Variables | Description | |-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | game_time_eastern -> start_time | Kickoff time in eastern time zone. | | site_fullname -> stadium | Game site name. | | drive_how_started -> drive_start_transition | String indicating how the offense got the ball. | | drive_how_ended -> drive_end_transition | String indicating how the offense lost the ball. | | drive_start_time -> drive_game_clock_start | Game time at the beginning of a given drive. | | drive_end_time -> drive_game_clock_end | Game time at the end of a given drive. | | drive_start_yardline -> drive_start_yard_line | String indicating where a given drive started consisting of team half and yard line number. | | drive_end_yardline -> drive_end_yard_line | String indicating where a given drive ended consisting of team half and yard line number. | | roof_type -> roof | One of 'dome', 'outdoors', 'closed', 'open' indicating indicating the roof status of the stadium the game was played in. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) |

The following variables were added

| Added Variables | Description | |------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | vegas_wp | Estimated win probabiity for the posteam given the current situation at the start of the given play, incorporating pre-game Vegas line. | | vegas_home_wp | Estimated win probability for the home team incorporating pre-game Vegas line. | | weather | String describing the weather including temperature, humidity and wind (direction and speed). Doesn't change during the game! | | nfl_api_id | UUID of the game in the new NFL API. | | play_clock | Time on the playclock when the ball was snapped. | | play_deleted | Binary indicator for deleted plays. | | end_clock_time | Game time at the end of a given play. | | end_yard_line | String indicating the yardline at the end of the given play consisting of team half and yard line number. | | drive_real_start_time | Local day time when the drive started (currently not used by the NFL and therefore mostly 'NA'). | | drive_ended_with_score | Binary indicator the drive ended with a score. | | drive_quarter_start | Numeric value indicating in which quarter the given drive has started. | | drive_quarter_end | Numeric value indicating in which quarter the given drive has ended. | | drive_play_id_started | Play_id of the first play in the given drive. | | drive_play_id_ended | Play_id of the last play in the given drive. | | away_score | Total points scored by the away team. | | home_score | Total points scored by the home team. | | location | Either 'Home' o 'Neutral' indicating if the home team played at home or at a neutral site. | | result | Equals home_score - away_score and means the game outcome from the perspective of the home team. | | total | Equals home_score + away_score and means the total points scored in the given game. | | spread_line | The closing spread line for the game. A positive number means the home team was favored by that many points, a negative number means the away team was favored by that many points. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | total_line | The closing total line for the game. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | div_game | Binary indicator for if the given game was a division game. | | roof | One of 'dome', 'outdoors', 'closed', 'open' indicating indicating the roof status of the stadium the game was played in. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | surface | What type of ground the game was played on. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | temp | The temperature at the stadium only for 'roof' = 'outdoors' or 'open'.(Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | wind | The speed of the wind in miles/hour only for 'roof' = 'outdoors' or 'open'. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | home_coach | First and last name of the home team coach. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | away_coach | First and last name of the away team coach. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | stadium_id | ID of the stadium the game was played in. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) | | game_stadium | Name of the stadium the game was played in. (Source: Pro-Football-Reference) |