season_play_by_play: Parsed Descriptive Play-by-Play Function for a Full Season
Description
This function outputs all plays of an entire season in one dataframe.
It calls the game_play_by_play function and applies it over every
game in the season by extracting each game ID and url in the specified season.
Usage
season_play_by_play(Season)
Arguments
Season
(numeric) A 4-digit year corresponding to an NFL season of
interest
Value
A dataframe contains all the play-by-play information for a single
season. This includes all the 99 variables collected in our
game_play_by_play function (see documentation for game_play_by_play for
details) and a column for the Season.
Details
This function calls the extracting_gameids,
proper_jsonurl_formatting, and game_play_by_play to aggregate all the plays
from a given season. This dataframe is prime for use with the dplyr and
plyr packages.
# NOT RUN {# Play-by-play data from all games in 2010pbp.data.2010 <- season_play_by_play(2010)
# Looking at all Pittsburgh Steelers offensive plays subset(pbp.data.2010, posteam = "PIT")
# }