Loads a pre-built per-season NBA player crosswalk that maps ESPN
athlete identifiers to NBA.com player identifiers. The files are versioned
.rds snapshots stored in the nba_crosswalk release of the
sportsdataverse-data repository.
Usage
load_nba_player_crosswalk(seasons = most_recent_nba_season())Arguments
- seasons
A vector of 4-digit years associated with given NBA seasons. (Min: 2002; default:
most_recent_nba_season())
Value
Returns a tibble of class hoopR_data with one row per
NBA player per season. Columns include at minimum season,
espn_athlete_id, and nba_player_id.
See also
Other NBA Crosswalk Functions:
load_nba_schedule_crosswalk(),
load_nba_team_crosswalk(),
nba_player_crosswalk(),
nba_schedule_crosswalk(),
nba_team_crosswalk()
Examples
# \donttest{
load_nba_player_crosswalk(seasons = most_recent_nba_season())
#> ── NBA player crosswalk (ESPN / NBA Stats / Fox) ──────────────── hoopR 3.1.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-13 04:57:47 UTC
#> # A tibble: 537 × 21
#> season espn_team_id team_abbreviation player_name espn_athlete_id
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2026 1 ATL nickeil alexander walk… 4278039
#> 2 2026 1 ATL tony bradley 4065673
#> 3 2026 1 ATL dyson daniels 4869342
#> 4 2026 1 ATL rayj dennis 4431941
#> 5 2026 1 ATL keshon gilbert 4585618
#> 6 2026 1 ATL mouhamed gueye 4712863
#> 7 2026 1 ATL buddy hield 2990984
#> 8 2026 1 ATL caleb houstan 4433623
#> 9 2026 1 ATL jalen johnson 4701230
#> 10 2026 1 ATL corey kispert 4280151
#> # ℹ 527 more rows
#> # ℹ 16 more variables: espn_full_name <chr>, espn_jersey <chr>,
#> # espn_position <chr>, nba_player_id <chr>, nba_player_name <chr>,
#> # nba_jersey_num <chr>, nba_position <chr>, fox_athlete_id <chr>,
#> # fox_player <chr>, fox_jersey <chr>, fox_position_group <chr>,
#> # yahoo_player_id <chr>, yahoo_player_name <chr>, match_method <chr>,
#> # match_confidence <dbl>, match_keys <chr>
# }