The top five players of a season in one stat category, for all teams or one team.
Endpoint: GET https://basket.co.il/ws/ws.asmx/LeaderByType
Arguments
- stat_type
(character required): Stat category code from ibba_stats_types: VAL, pts, isr_pts, plusminus, dunk, ASS, TR,
[OR], DR, isr_TR, ST,[TO], ASSTO, BKF, FF,[min], p2, p3, p1, p32T, p22T, p12T, PTSMIN, TRMIN, ASSMIN.- season
(integer required): Season END year (2026 = 2025-26); sent to the host as
cYearunchanged.- team_id
(integer, default
0): Team-season id to restrict the list to one team; 0 (default) for all teams.
Value
A hoopR_data tibble with these columns:
| col_name | type | description |
| value | double | The leader's value in the requested category (per-game average, percentage or count). |
| games | integer | Games the leader played. |
| season | integer | Season END year as an integer (2026 = 2025-26): the host's own cYear, no mapping. |
| team_id | integer | Team-season id of the leader's team. |
| jersey | character | The leader's jersey number as a zero-padded string. |
| player_id | integer | Player-season id (key space: IBBA player registrations; a NEW id every season, e.g. Jaylen Hoard = 21912 in 2025-26 and 25997 in 2026-27; the ASMX host has no cross-season person id). Joins ibba_players, ibba_player, ibba_box_score and ibba_leaders; null on the team-credited and TOTAL box rows. |
| player_name_he | character | Player name in Hebrew, HTML-unescaped. |
| photo_path | character | Site-relative path of the photo (team or player picture); prefix with https://www.basket.co.il. |
Details
Source, terms of use, request pacing, seasons, ids, coverage and error classes of this family: see the notes in ibba_configuration().
See also
Other IBBA Functions:
ibba_boards(),
ibba_boards_ex(),
ibba_box_score(),
ibba_coaches(),
ibba_configuration(),
ibba_games(),
ibba_games_by_team(),
ibba_games_ex(),
ibba_player(),
ibba_player_stats(),
ibba_players(),
ibba_segev_game_crosswalk(),
ibba_stats_types(),
ibba_team(),
ibba_team_stats(),
ibba_teams()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(ibba_leaders(season = 2026, stat_type = pts))
#> Error in eval(expr, envir) : object 'pts' not found
# }