Shot chart of one finished game (2017-18 on): every field-goal attempt with its court position.
Endpoint: GET https://www.aba-liga.com/live-match/rezultati-1718/create_shooting_chart.php?id={game_no}&sez={sez}&lea={lea}
(after a GET of the same game's match page, which the helper is checked against).
sez = season - 2001; league = "aba2" reads https://druga.aba-liga.com with lea = 2.
Arguments
- game_no
Required. Game number within the season AND league (it restarts at 1 for every season and league), e.g. 6;
game_noin aba_calendar. Playoff games that were not needed leave gaps.- 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 per field-goal attempt (no free throws), in the site's order. x and y are PERCENTAGES of the full
court on the site's 1000x535 px image (court 28 x 15 m), cast to float (the site sends x as a string in one
half of a game and a number in the other). x runs from the LEFT baseline (home shoots at x < 50, away at x >
50). y is drawn upward from the bottom edge, 50 = the line through both baskets; whether "up" is the scorer's
table side is unverified. side is home / away (the site's ekipa 1 / 2). player_id is cast from the
site's string (null when the shooter was not recorded, id 0); join on it, not on the name. The chart can differ
from the box score by one attempt per shooter.
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 |
| game_no | integer | Game number, per season AND league: it restarts at 1 for every season and league, so a game's key is (game_no, season, league_id). Unplayed playoff games leave gaps. The {gameNo} of the match route. |
| 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. |
| side | character | Which team took the shot: home or away (the site's ekipa, a string '1' / '2'). |
| x | double | Shot x as a PERCENTAGE (0-100) of the court LENGTH from the LEFT baseline of the site's 1000x535 px full-court image. Home shoots at x < 50 and away at x > 50. The site sends it as a string in one half of a game and a number in the other; cast to float. |
| y | double | Shot y as a PERCENTAGE (0-100) of the court WIDTH, drawn upward from the bottom edge (the line through both baskets is 50). Whether 'up' is the scorer's table side is unverified. |
| made | logical | True when the attempt was made (the site's koordinata_uspeh '1'), false when missed. |
| player_id | integer | Shooter's ABA player id (global), cast from the site's string; null when the shooter was not recorded (id 0). Join to the box score on it, never on the name. |
| player_name | character | Shooter's full name, 'First Last' (the box prints 'Last F.'); null when not recorded. |
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_shots(game_no = 6, season = 2026)See also
Other ABA Functions:
aba_box_players(),
aba_box_teams(),
aba_calendar(),
aba_game(),
aba_pbp(),
aba_periods(),
aba_player(),
aba_player_games(),
aba_score_difference(),
aba_score_flow(),
aba_standings()