Get the full game-by-game schedule and results for a season from barttorvik.com.
Pulls Bart Torvik's "super schedule" (the {year}_super_sked.json file): one
row per game with the pre-game prediction, both teams' adjusted efficiencies
and tempo, the final result, and post-game game-quality metrics. No API key is
required. Data is available from 2008 to present.
Usage
torvik_game_schedule(year = most_recent_mbb_season())Arguments
- year
(integer required): Season, in 4-digit ending-year format (e.g.
2024). Defaults tomost_recent_mbb_season().
Value
A hoopR_data tibble with one row per game (key columns shown; the
_1/_2 suffixes denote team1 and team2):
| col_name | types | description |
| muid | character | Matchup unique id. |
| date | character | Game date (M/D/YY). |
| conmatch | character | Conference matchup descriptor. |
| matchup | character | Ranked-matchup descriptor. |
| prediction | character | Pre-game prediction (favorite, score, win %). |
| ttq | numeric | Torvik Thrill Quotient (game excitement). |
| conf | numeric | Conference-game flag. |
| venue | numeric | Venue / neutral-site flag. |
| team1 | character | Team 1 name. |
| t1oe | numeric | Team 1 offensive efficiency in the game. |
| t1de | numeric | Team 1 defensive efficiency in the game. |
| team2 | character | Team 2 name. |
| t2oe | numeric | Team 2 offensive efficiency in the game. |
| t2de | numeric | Team 2 defensive efficiency in the game. |
| gp | numeric | Game-played flag (1 if completed). |
| result | character | Final result string. |
| tempo | numeric | Game tempo (possessions). |
| possessions | numeric | Possessions in the game. |
| t1pts | numeric | Team 1 points. |
| t2pts | numeric | Team 2 points. |
| winner | character | Winning team. |
| loser | character | Losing team. |
| gamevalue | numeric | Game quality value. |
| t1ppp | numeric | Team 1 points per possession. |
| t2ppp | numeric | Team 2 points per possession. |
| overtimes | numeric | Number of overtimes. |
| year | integer | Season (echoes the year argument). |
Additional adjusted-efficiency, quality, and ranking columns (t1adjo,
t2adjd, t1qual, mismatch, t1rk, ...) are also returned.
See also
Other Torvik Functions:
torvik_game_stats(),
torvik_ncaa_results(),
torvik_player_stats(),
torvik_ratings(),
torvik_team_factors()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(torvik_game_schedule(year = 2024))
#> ✖ 2026-06-13 07:39:15.73635: Invalid arguments or no schedule available for 2024!
#> ✖ Args: year = 2024
#> ✖ Error: lexical error: invalid char in json text. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C// (right here) ------^
#> data frame with 0 columns and 0 rows
# }