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Load cleaned NBA draft results from the data repo

Source: R/load_nba.R
load_nba_draft.Rd

helper that loads multiple seasons of ESPN NBA draft results (overall pick, round, drafted player, and team) from the sportsdataverse-data release repo, either into memory or into a database via forwarded arguments in the dots.

Usage

load_nba_draft(
  seasons = most_recent_nba_season(),
  ...,
  dbConnection = NULL,
  tablename = NULL
)

Arguments

seasons

A vector of 4-digit years associated with given NBA draft years. (Min: 2003)

...

Additional arguments passed to an underlying function that writes the season data into a database (used by update_nba_db()).

dbConnection

A DBIConnection object, as returned by DBI::dbConnect().

tablename

The name of the draft data table within the database.

Value

Returns a tibble of NBA draft picks.