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A wrapper for extracting world football (soccer) data from fbref.com and transfermarkt.com

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worldfootballR

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Overview

This package is designed to allow users to extract various world football results and player statistics data from fbref.com and valuations and transfer data from transfermarkt.com.

Installation

You can install the worldfootballR package from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("JaseZiv/worldfootballR")
library(worldfootballR)

Usage

Package vignettes have been built to help you get started with the package.

  • For helper functions to extract fbref URLs, see here
  • For whole league match-level data, see here
  • For whole league season-level data, see here
  • For functions to extract data for individual players and or teams, see here
  • For transfer histories and player market valuations, see here

Leagues and Seasons

For fbref.com data (match and season data), a list of leagues and seasons included in the package can be found in the worldfootballR_data repository and can be found here

For transfermarkt.com data (valuations and transfers), a list of leagues and seasons included in the package can be found in the worldfootballR_data repository and can be found here


Contributing

Issues and Improvements

When creating an issue, please include:

  • Reproducible examples
  • A brief description of what the expected results are
  • If applicable, the fbref.com or transfermarkt.com page the observed behaviour is occuring on
  • For improvements, what addiditional features are being requested and what problem they will help solve

Pull Requests

Pull requests are also welcomed. Before doing so, please create an issue or email me with your idea.

Feel free to get in touch via email or twitter https://twitter.com/jaseziv

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