Game header: tip-off, competition, both teams and the game state (scores are in the box score).
Endpoint: GET https://stats.segevstats.com/realtimestat_heb/api/?method=getGameInfo
Value
A hoopR_data tibble with these columns:
| col_name | type | description |
| game_id | integer | Segev game id (key space: one flat sequence across seasons and competitions); equals the IBBA ibba_games segev_game_id from 2025-26. Not an IBBA game id. |
| start_time | POSIXct | Scheduled tip-off in Israel local time as a naive datetime (the feed has no offset; it can differ from the IBBA tip_off by minutes). |
| competition | character | Competition name ('Winner League', 'Winner Cup', 'Women', 'Leumit', 'Noar', 'School', 'Preparation Games'): the reliable men's / women's discriminator. |
| home_team_id | integer | Home Segev team id (key space: Segev teams, stable across seasons and competitions; Maccabi Tel Aviv = 2). Not an IBBA team-season id. |
| home_team | character | Home team name in English, upper case; some women's teams end in ' (W)', not all. |
| home_team_local | character | Home team name in Hebrew (Latin sponsor words kept). |
| home_short_name | character | Home team short name in English, upper case. |
| away_team_id | integer | Away Segev team id (key space: Segev teams, stable across seasons and competitions). |
| away_team | character | Away team name in English, upper case. |
| away_team_local | character | Away team name in Hebrew (Latin sponsor words kept). |
| away_short_name | character | Away team short name in English, upper case. |
| periods | integer | Regulation periods in the game (4). |
| finished | logical | True once the game is final (the wrappers read finished games only). |
| current_period | integer | Current period, the last one played for a finished game (5+ means overtime). |
| clock | character | Game clock remaining as 'mm:ss' ('00:00' for a finished game). |
Details
The ibba_segev_*() wrappers read Segev Stats, the live-stats vendor behind basket.co.il's
game pages (stats.segevstats.com/realtimestat_heb/api/, a JSON-RPC API served as
text/html): the game header, rosters, box score, period scores and play-by-play with shot
coordinates, from 2025-26. They mirror sportsdataverse-py's ibba_segev_* wrappers of the same names:
same arguments, the same snake_case columns and types, one row per sportsdataverse-py row.
Unofficial and unsupported. The API is keyless, unofficial and not documented for outside use. Requests are spaced at least one second apart per host (429 / 502 / 503 / 504 are retried three times, a 500 is not); only finished games are read.
Games and ids. game_id is one flat Segev id space across seasons AND competitions
(men's Winner League, Winner Cup, women's, Leumit, youth, school and pre-season games), so
read competition from ibba_segev_game_info(). There is no game list: league game ids
come from ibba_games() segev_game_id (2025-26 on; see ibba_segev_game_crosswalk()).
Segev team and player ids are stable across seasons (Jaylen Hoard = player 1000 in games 50
and 419), unlike the IBBA season registrations, and are not IBBA ids.
Play-by-play. Actions name the player by Segev id and by JERSEY number, score reads
away-home, and shot x / y are one half-court frame (x 0-1470 across, basket near 735;
y out from the baseline, rim near 112-140); which sideline is x = 0 and the metric scale
are unverified. Segev renamed its team game stats between 2025-26 and 2026-27; the frames
unify them. start_time is the scheduled tip-off in Israel local time (POSIXct, tz
Asia/Jerusalem; the feed carries no offset).
Errors are classed conditions, never a warning plus an empty frame: hoopR_no_data
(HTTP 404, "game not found", a finished game with no actions), hoopR_bad_request (HTTP
400 / 422, or a game_id that is not a positive integer) and hoopR_asset_fetch (any
other failure: another status, a transport error, an empty or non-JSON body, an error or
changed envelope, a body for another game, a game that is not final). All inherit
hoopR_error.
See also
Other IBBA Segev Functions:
ibba_segev_pbp(),
ibba_segev_period_scores(),
ibba_segev_player_box(),
ibba_segev_rosters(),
ibba_segev_team_box()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(ibba_segev_game_info(game_id = 50))
#> ── IBBA Segev game info ───────────────────────────────────────── hoopR 3.2.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-31 21:30:49 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 15
#> game_id start_time competition home_team_id home_team home_team_local
#> <int> <dttm> <chr> <int> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 50 2025-10-12 18:40:00 Winner Lea… 11 BEER SHE… "אלטשולר ב\"ש/…
#> # ℹ 9 more variables: home_short_name <chr>, away_team_id <int>,
#> # away_team <chr>, away_team_local <chr>, away_short_name <chr>,
#> # periods <int>, finished <lgl>, current_period <int>, clock <chr>
# }