Build a wide, one-row-per-player-per-team crosswalk linking ESPN and Fox Sports (Bifrost) MBB player identities for a season. ESPN is the anchor source; Fox is matched by normalized name (exact first, then Jaro-Winkler fuzzy with jersey tiebreaker) within each team block. Yahoo columns are NA placeholders. KenPom and Torvik have no per-player data for MBB, so neither source is joined.
Usage
mbb_player_crosswalk(season = most_recent_mbb_season(), min_confidence = 0.92)Arguments
- season
Season year (4-digit, e.g.
2025). Defaults tomost_recent_mbb_season().- min_confidence
Jaro-Winkler similarity floor for fuzzy matches (default 0.92).
Value
A hoopR_data tibble, one row per player per team (ESPN-anchored):
| col_name | types | description |
| season | integer | Season year. |
| espn_team_id | integer | ESPN team id (canonical key). |
| team_abbreviation | character | ESPN team abbreviation. |
| player_name | character | Normalized player name (matching key). |
| espn_athlete_id | character | ESPN athlete id. |
| espn_full_name | character | ESPN full name. |
| espn_jersey | character | ESPN jersey number. |
| espn_position | character | ESPN position abbreviation. |
| fox_athlete_id | character | Fox athlete id (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_player | character | Fox player name (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_jersey | character | Fox jersey number (NA if unmatched). |
| fox_position_group | character | Fox position group label (NA if unmatched). |
| yahoo_player_id | character | Yahoo player id (NA placeholder). |
| yahoo_player_name | character | Yahoo player name (NA placeholder). |
| match_method | character | "exact_name"/"fuzzy_jw"/"unmatched". |
| match_confidence | numeric | Jaro-Winkler score or 1 for exact (NA if none). |
| match_keys | character | NA (reserved for future use). |
See also
Other MBB Crosswalk Functions:
load_nba_team_crosswalk(),
mbb_schedule_crosswalk(),
mbb_team_crosswalk()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(mbb_player_crosswalk(season = 2025))
#> ✖ 2026-09-30 15:08:13.269239: Could not build MBB player crosswalk for 2025!
#> ✖ Args: season = 2025, min_confidence = 0.92
#> ✖ Error: Torvik 2025: no team rows (19 rows, columns doctype_html_public_w3c_dtd_html_4_01_transitional_en_http_www_w3_org_tr_html4_loose_dtd, year); a blocked or empty response must not ship as NA bart_* columns
#> data frame with 0 columns and 0 rows
# }