One player's bio for one season and league: club, position, height, birth date and place, nationality and the career line.
Endpoint: GET https://www.aba-liga.com/player/{player_id}/{sez}/{lea}/
sez = season - 2001; league = "aba2" reads https://druga.aba-liga.com with lea = 2.
Arguments
- player_id
Required. ABA player id (global: one person keeps one id across seasons and both leagues), e.g. 4807 (Carlik Jones);
player_idin aba_box_players.- season
Required. Season END year (2026 = 2025-26). the wrapper sends the site's START-year key
sez = season - 2001(25). The ABA League's first season is 2001-02 (season=2002).- league
League:
aba(ABA League, www.aba-liga.com, site code lea=1) oraba2(ABA League 2, druga.aba-liga.com, lea=2). Both sites serve one database; the runtime asks the league's own host. Default"aba".
Value
A hoopR_data tibble.
One row keyed by (player_id, season, league_id) with the club (team_id is the global club id),
position, height in cm, birth date and place, nationality (a three-letter code) and career, the free-text
Clubs box joined with "; " (oldest first). These bio fields are the public player profile.
Every column below is always present (a zero-row tibble keeps them and their types); an answer with nothing in
it raises hoopR_no_data, as in sportsdataverse-py.
| col_name | type | description |
| player_id | integer | ABA player id (global: one person keeps one id across seasons and both leagues, e.g. Carlik Jones = 4807), cast to an integer. Join on it, never on the printed name. |
| season | integer | Season END year (2026 = 2025-26): the site's START-year key sez (25) plus 2001. |
| league_id | integer | League code, the site's lea: 1 = ABA League, 2 = ABA League 2. |
| league | character | League label: aba (ABA League, lea 1) or aba2 (ABA League 2, lea 2), the wrapper's league argument. |
| name | character | Full name from the h1, 'First Last' (checked against the expected name). |
| team_id | integer | ABA club id (global: the same id in every season and in both leagues, e.g. Partizan = 22 in 2008-09 and 2025-26). Joins every frame that carries it; the calendar has club names only. |
| club | character | Club name of the 'Club:' row. |
| position | character | Position in English as printed ('Guard' on the sample). |
| height_cm | integer | Height in centimetres ('185 cm'). |
| birth_date | Date | Date of birth, ISO 'YYYY-MM-DD' (public player bio). |
| birth_place | character | Place of birth as printed, 'City, COUNTRY' ('Cincinnati, USA'). |
| nationality | character | Sporting nationality, a three-letter code as printed ('SSD' = South Sudan; IOC/FIBA-style codes). |
| career | character | The Clubs box, one free-text line per stint, oldest first, joined with '; ' ('2021/22 - Texas Legends; 2024-27 - Partizan Mozzart Bet'). |
Details
Unofficial use of a public source: these wrappers read the leagues' own PHP sites (www.aba-liga.com,
druga.aba-liga.com), keyless, with no bot wall.
www.aba-liga.com/robots.txt is the single line User-agent: * (nothing disallowed, no Crawl-delay) and druga has
no robots.txt; no terms page was found. The runtime waits at least 1 s per host before every request.
Coverage: box scores from 2001-02; play-by-play, the starter and on-court markers, the shot chart and the
minute-by-minute score from 2017-18 (earlier games answer an empty pbp and hoopR_no_data for the helpers). A
game is keyed by (game_no, season, league_id): game_no restarts at 1 for every season and league. Team and player
ids are global; the calendar carries club names only. Club names are the club's CURRENT name on every season:
join on team_id.
Only finished games are served: an unplayed game, or one whose period scores, team totals or play-by-play do not
add up to the final score, raises hoopR_asset_fetch, as does a page for another game, season or league than
asked. The three live-match helpers echo nothing about the game, so the runtime fetches the same game's match
page first (one extra request) and checks the helper against it.
Times: CET means Central European wall-clock time including summer time (the label never changes); ABA League 2
prints Local time. Officials appear by name only; the player bio (birth date and place, nationality) is the
public player profile.
Errors: hoopR_no_data when the site has nothing for the request (HTTP 404, an unknown game redirected to
/match-not-defined/, a season the site does not hold or before 2001-02, a live-match helper with no data before
2017-18); hoopR_bad_request for an invalid argument (a non-integer id or season, a league other than aba /
aba2) or HTTP 400 / 422; hoopR_asset_fetch when the fetch failed (any other non-200, a connection failure
after three attempts, a redirect off the ABA sites) or the answer is not the one asked for (a page for another
game, season or league, an unfinished game, a helper that does not belong to the game, layout drift). All inherit
hoopR_error.
aba_player(player_id = 4807, season = 2026)See also
Other ABA Functions:
aba_box_players(),
aba_box_teams(),
aba_calendar(),
aba_game(),
aba_pbp(),
aba_periods(),
aba_player_games(),
aba_score_difference(),
aba_score_flow(),
aba_shots(),
aba_standings()