The 2025 women's volleyball season has completed, so we have added Division 1 data to the data page. The NCAA is making it very difficult to scrape lots of data at once, so we don't have Divisions 2 or 3 uploaded yet.
To help with the scraping we have added a delay argument to the group_stats() function (and downstream conference_stats() and division_stats() wrappers) that allows control over the time delay between scraping the next team/contest.
The output of play-by-play data now has a column counting each rally and each event within a rally to address #20.
The 2025 season has begun, and this version has updated the current_season() to 2025 to allow scraping this season's data.
The package website now includes a data page that includes all data from 2020-2024 as separate files for each sport, data level, division, and year.
Data output now includes contest ID or team ID columns to facilitate joining datasets.
Most of NCAA's websites now using JavaScript with loading pages, so most functions now use rvest::read_live_html(). Unfortunately, this has resulted in much slower processing of data, and large-scale scraping triggers IP address bans. When encountering errors, try running the function again or at a later time.
Chromote sessions are now closed after scraping data.
Unit testing is greatly expanded and improved to test the code better.
Documentation uses inherited notes to simplify documentation changes.
Air is now used to format code.
NCAA's game-by-game website introduced a loading page that disrupted team_season_stats() and team_match_stats(). team_season_stats() now gets the info from a different page. team_match_stats() now uses the rvest::read_live_html() function, which requires the {chromote} package and access to Google Chrome.
Catch contests with too many sets and return warning instead of error
Increase minimum R version to 4.2
Wrap all URL requests in tryCatch() to ensure internet connection problems fail gracefully.
Change examples to interactive only and note functions that require internet activity.
Skip testing on CRAN for tests requiring internet connections.
Switch vignette to pre-built Rmd file.
Remove examples from division_stats() and get_teams() documentation.
Remove deprecated group_player_stats().
Update status to active and lifecycle to stable.
Create team_season_info(), team_season_stats(), and team_match_stats() functions to output team-related information.
Create division_stats() and conference_stats() to aggregate season, match, and play-by-play statistics over divisions and conferences.
Create vignette to help Get Started.
Update logo.
Remove duplication of match and play-by-play stats in group_stats().
Create more descriptive warnings when teams or matches are missing.
Improve handling of seasons and matches with no data. These cases are skipped with a warning instead of stopping with an error.
Create suite of functions to check argument input
Skip all URL request tests on CRAN and CI
Improve output of match_pbp() to parse events and players.
Improve output of find_team_contests() to include record, attendance, and canceled matches.
Add match and play-by-play levels to group_stats().
Fix bug in group_stats() when matches are canceled.
Replace term "visitor" with "away".
DEPRECATION:
group_player_stats() has been renamed group_stats().conference_player_stats() has been renamed conference_season_stats().division_player_stats() has been renamed division_season_stats().Add match-level functions find_team_contests(), player_match_stats(), and test match_pbp() for extracting match/contest IDs, player statistics, and play-by-play information.
DEPRECATION: team_player_stats() has been renamed player_season_stats().
Initial release.
Add season-level statistics extraction `.
Add conference, division, and custom group aggregation with conference_player_stats(), division_player_stats(), and group_player_stats()
Create website and logo.