Get end-of-season conference standings from Basketball-Reference.
No API key is required. Basketball-Reference rate-limits aggressive scraping
(~20 requests/minute) – space repeated calls with Sys.sleep().
Usage
bref_standings(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 team:
| col_name | types | description |
| conference | character | Conference (E or W). |
| team | character | Team name (with playoff-seed marker stripped). |
| wins | integer | Wins. |
| losses | integer | Losses. |
| win_loss_pct | numeric | Win-loss percentage. |
| gb | character | Games behind the conference leader. |
| pts_per_g | numeric | Points scored per game. |
| opp_pts_per_g | numeric | Opponent points per game. |
| srs | numeric | Simple Rating System (point margin + SOS). |
| playoffs | logical | TRUE if the team made the playoffs (* marker). |
| season | integer | Season (echoes the season argument). |
See also
Other Basketball-Reference Functions:
bref_awards(),
bref_draft(),
bref_injuries(),
bref_player_bios(),
bref_player_game_log(),
bref_players_stats(),
bref_team_roster(),
bref_teams_stats()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(bref_standings(season = 2024))
#> ── Standings from basketball-reference.com ────────────────────── hoopR 3.1.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-13 07:17:40 UTC
#> # A tibble: 30 × 11
#> team wins losses win_loss_pct gb pts_per_g opp_pts_per_g srs
#> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Boston Celtics 64 18 0.78 — 121. 109. 10.8
#> 2 New York Knicks 50 32 0.61 14.0 113. 108. 4.36
#> 3 Milwaukee Bucks 49 33 0.598 15.0 119 116. 2.44
#> 4 Cleveland Cava… 48 34 0.585 16.0 113. 110. 1.98
#> 5 Orlando Magic 47 35 0.573 17.0 110. 108. 1.48
#> 6 Indiana Pacers 47 35 0.573 17.0 123. 120. 2.75
#> 7 Philadelphia 7… 47 35 0.573 17.0 115. 112. 2.51
#> 8 Miami Heat 46 36 0.561 18.0 110. 108. 1.1
#> 9 Chicago Bulls 39 43 0.476 25.0 112. 114. -1.77
#> 10 Atlanta Hawks 36 46 0.439 28.0 118. 120. -2.38
#> # ℹ 20 more rows
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: conference <chr>, playoffs <lgl>, season <int>
# }