Get end-of-season award voting from Basketball-Reference.
Returns the voting results for the major end-of-season awards (MVP, Rookie of
the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Sixth Man, Most Improved, Clutch
Player, Coach of the Year) in one tidy tibble, one row per candidate per
award. No API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive
scraping (~20 requests/minute) – space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().
Usage
bref_awards(season = most_recent_nba_season())Arguments
- season
(integer required): Season, in 4-digit ending-year format (e.g.
2024). Defaults tomost_recent_nba_season().
Value
A hoopR_data tibble with one row per award candidate:
| col_name | types | description |
| award | character | Award slug (mvp, roy, dpoy, smoy, mip, clutch_poy, coy). |
| rank | integer | Finish in the voting. |
| player | character | Player (or coach) name. |
| age | integer | Age. |
| team | character | Team abbreviation. |
| votes_first | numeric | First-place votes. |
| points_won | numeric | Voting points won. |
| points_max | numeric | Maximum possible voting points. |
| award_share | numeric | Share of the maximum voting points. |
| season | integer | Season (echoes the season argument). |
See also
Other Basketball-Reference Functions:
bref_draft(),
bref_injuries(),
bref_player_bios(),
bref_player_game_log(),
bref_players_stats(),
bref_standings(),
bref_team_roster(),
bref_teams_stats()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(bref_awards(season = 2024))
#> ── Award voting from basketball-reference.com ─────────────────── hoopR 3.1.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-13 07:17:26 UTC
#> # A tibble: 80 × 10
#> rank player age team votes_first points_won points_max award_share award
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 1 Nikola… 28 DEN 79 926 990 0.935 mvp
#> 2 2 Shai G… 25 OKC 15 640 990 0.646 mvp
#> 3 3 Luka D… 24 DAL 4 566 990 0.572 mvp
#> 4 4 Gianni… 29 MIL 1 192 990 0.194 mvp
#> 5 5 Jalen … 27 NYK 0 142 990 0.143 mvp
#> 6 6 Jayson… 25 BOS 0 86 990 0.087 mvp
#> 7 7 Anthon… 22 MIN 0 18 990 0.018 mvp
#> 8 8 Domant… 27 SAC 0 3 990 0.003 mvp
#> 9 9 Kevin … 35 PHO 0 1 990 0.001 mvp
#> 10 1 Victor… 20 SAS 99 495 495 1 roy
#> # ℹ 70 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: season <int>
# }