The games of the playoff bracket (2024-25 on; the older bracket format lists no games).
Endpoint: GET https://api.kbl.or.kr/league/playoff/{season}
Value
A hoopR_data tibble: The games of the playoff bracket (2024-25 on; the older bracket format lists no games). The
columns are always these, in this order (sportsdataverse-py kbl_playoff_games); an empty valid answer raises
hoopR_no_data, a valid body with no rows for this frame is a zero-row tibble:
| col_name | type | description |
| season | integer | Season END year (2026 = 2025-26), derived from season_code through the crosswalk (kbl_codes.SEASONS). |
| season_code | integer | KBL season code of the game (from the bracket's gmkey object). |
| gmkey | character | Game key S{seasonCode}G{gameCode}N{gameNo} (e.g. S47G01N49): the id of every game route and game frame. |
| game_code | character | Competition type of the game: 03 playoffs, 04 championship final. |
| game_no | integer | Game number inside the competition, from the bracket's gmkey object. |
| round | character | Playoff round: quarterfinal (the last six, seeds 3-6), semifinal (the last four) or final; on the round-MVP and rounds frames the round number of the season. |
| series_no | integer | Series number inside the round (1 or 2 for the quarterfinals and semifinals, 1 for the final). |
| game_date | Date | Game date, KST. |
| home_team_code | character | Home team code. Team code: the KBL club in that season (two-digit string with a leading zero, e.g. '50' = Changwon LG). Joins kbl_teams team_code; not stable across ownership changes (the Anyang club is '40' in 1997-98, '70' today). |
| away_team_code | character | Away team code. Team code: the KBL club in that season (two-digit string with a leading zero, e.g. '50' = Changwon LG). Joins kbl_teams team_code; not stable across ownership changes (the Anyang club is '40' in 1997-98, '70' today). |
| home_team_name | character | Home team short name (Korean). |
| away_team_name | character | Away team short name (Korean). |
| home_score | integer | Home team points. |
| away_score | integer | Away team points. |
| home_win | logical | 1 when the home team won, else 0. |
Details
Source, terms of use, request pacing, seasons, ids, coverage and error classes of this family: see the notes in kbl_seasons().
kbl_playoff_games(season = 2025)See also
Other KBL Functions:
kbl_current_standings(),
kbl_game(),
kbl_game_leaders(),
kbl_pbp(),
kbl_period_scores(),
kbl_player_box(),
kbl_player_totals(),
kbl_players(),
kbl_playoff_seeds(),
kbl_playoff_series(),
kbl_round_mvps(),
kbl_rounds(),
kbl_schedule(),
kbl_score_track(),
kbl_season_leaders(),
kbl_seasons(),
kbl_shots(),
kbl_standings(),
kbl_team_box(),
kbl_team_tracks(),
kbl_teams()