Tournament top-5 player leaders in nine categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, shooting).
Endpoint: GET https://easl.joshricha.com/api/v1/leaders
Value
A hoopR_data tibble: Tournament top-5 player leaders in nine categories (points, rebounds, assists, steals,
blocks, shooting). An empty answer raises hoopR_no_data; the columns are always these, in this order (sportsdataverse-py
easl_leaders):
| col_name | type | description |
| season | integer | Season END year (2026 = EASL 25-26): stamped by easl_runtime from the request, null when the body is parsed bare. |
| season_id | character | DataCore season UUID v1 of the leader row. |
| category | character | Leader category, the wire key of the group: pointsPerGame, reboundsPerGame, assistsPerGame, stealsPerGame, blocksPerGame, pointsThreeMade, pointsThreePercentage, fieldGoalsPercentage or freeThrowsPercentage. |
| rank | integer | Rank inside the category, 1 = best, in the delivered order (the server lists the top 5). |
| value | double | The leader's value in the category: a per-game average, a count (pointsThreeMade) or a percentage (0-100). Float64. |
| player_id | character | playerId: DataCore person UUID v1 (key space: EASL persons, the same id as the box score's personId; joins /players, leaders and play-by-play players). Not a team id. |
| player_name | character | Player display name in 'FAMILY Given' form with the family name upper-cased (OSAKABE Taiki), in Latin script. |
| player_name_latin | character | Alternative name: equal to nameFullLocal for 257 of 552 players, otherwise null; never non-Latin in the observed data. |
| jersey_number | character | Jersey number as a string ('00', '0' and '75' are distinct). |
| position | character | Playing position: G, F, C, PG, SG, SF, PF or GF (guard-forward). |
| player_status | character | Registration state of the player in the database: ACTIVE, INACTIVE or UNREGISTERED. |
| team_id | character | teamId: DataCore team (entity) UUID v1 (key space: EASL teams, the same id as entityId; joins /teams, /standings team.id, fixture competitors, box and play-by-play teams). Not a player id. |
| team_name | character | Display name. Despite the field name this is the English / Latin-script name used on the league site. |
| team_name_native | character | Alternative name: the native-script name of some Japanese clubs (for example the Japanese-script name of Utsunomiya Brex), blank for most clubs; for players it usually equals nameFullLocal. Despite the field name it is not always Latin script. Null on some rows. |
| team_code_latin | character | Three-letter club code (for example BRE); null or empty for some clubs. |
| team_code_local | character | Alternative three-letter club code (for example TPP); null for most clubs. A club may have only one of codeLatin / codeLocal. |
Details
Source, terms of use, request pacing, seasons, ids, coverage and error classes of this family: see the notes in easl_health().
easl_leaders(season = 2026)See also
Other EASL Functions:
easl_game(),
easl_health(),
easl_pbp(),
easl_player(),
easl_player_box(),
easl_player_stats(),
easl_players(),
easl_schedule(),
easl_seasons(),
easl_standings(),
easl_team(),
easl_team_box(),
easl_team_box_by_period(),
easl_team_leaders(),
easl_team_schedule(),
easl_team_stats(),
easl_teams()