Player leaders of a season for the first count leader categories.
Endpoint: GET https://org.infobasket.su/Comp/GetBestPlayers/{season}
Arguments
- season
Season END year (2026 = 2025-26); the wrapper maps it to the season-level Infobasket CompID with vtb_infobasket_seasons (one extra request per tag, cached).
- count
Leader categories to return (the site's widget asks 5).
- lang
Label language (en or ru). Most bodies carry both languages whatever is asked; the leader categories' labels follow it.
- tag
Competition tag scoping the profile: vtb (VTB United League, default), vtbyouth, wbc, wpremier or rfb. The season table is read for this tag.
Value
A hoopR_data tibble: Player leaders of a season for the first count leader categories. The columns are always
these, in this order (sportsdataverse-py vtb_infobasket_best_players); 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): the season the request asked for, stamped by the runtime. |
| param_id | integer | Leader-category id (the param of the parameter lists). |
| param_name | character | Leader category name (ParamName), e.g. 'Points'. |
| param_short_name | character | Leader category short label, e.g. 'Points in a game'. |
| param_label | character | Leader category label in the requested language (lang). |
| param_group | integer | Category group; 0 in the samples. |
| rank | integer | Rank in the leader list. |
| team_id | integer | Infobasket TeamID (2650 = Lokomotiv Kuban); the v2 teamId. Not a club-record id and not a registration id. |
| team_short_name_ru | character | The the team's short name in Russian (as the competition names it). |
| team_short_name_en | character | The the team's short name in English (as the competition names it). |
| team_name_ru | character | The the team's name in Russian (as the competition names it). |
| team_name_en | character | The the team's name in English (as the competition names it). |
| team_region_name_ru | character | The the team's region or city in Russian (as the competition names it). |
| team_region_name_en | character | The the team's region or city in English (as the competition names it). |
| person_id | integer | Infobasket person id (PersonID): one person (player, coach or official) across clubs and seasons. Joins to /Widget/PlayerPage/{personId} (players) and /Widget/CoachPage/{personId} (coaches). |
| person_last_name_ru | character | Last name, Russian. |
| person_last_name_en | character | Last name, English. |
| person_first_name_ru | character | First name, Russian. |
| person_first_name_en | character | First name, English. |
| person_full_name_ru | character | Full name, 'Last First', Russian. |
| person_full_name_en | character | Full name, 'Last First', English. |
| person_gender | integer | Person gender: 1 on every sampled (male) person. |
| game_id | integer | Infobasket GameID of the game (the v2 matches' match_id); global across seasons. |
| game_count | integer | Games the value is averaged over. |
| res | double | The leader's value (a per-game average for 'in a game' categories). |
| pre_res | character | The value as displayed, a string (e.g. '1070' for 10.70 without separator; format unverified). |
| is_same | logical | True when the row ties the previous one. |
Details
Source, terms of use, request pacing, seasons, ids, coverage and error classes of this family: see the notes in vtb_infobasket_seasons().
vtb_infobasket_best_players(season = 2026)See also
Other VTB Functions:
vtb_infobasket_best_player_parameters(),
vtb_infobasket_best_team_parameters(),
vtb_infobasket_best_teams(),
vtb_infobasket_box_score(),
vtb_infobasket_calendar(),
vtb_infobasket_coach(),
vtb_infobasket_comp_issue(),
vtb_infobasket_cross_table(),
vtb_infobasket_game(),
vtb_infobasket_game_page(),
vtb_infobasket_game_staff(),
vtb_infobasket_pbp(),
vtb_infobasket_player(),
vtb_infobasket_player_career_stats(),
vtb_infobasket_player_game_log(),
vtb_infobasket_player_season_stats(),
vtb_infobasket_playoff(),
vtb_infobasket_playoff_games(),
vtb_infobasket_roster(),
vtb_infobasket_roster_coaches(),
vtb_infobasket_seasons(),
vtb_infobasket_standings(),
vtb_infobasket_team(),
vtb_infobasket_team_box_score(),
vtb_infobasket_team_coach_stats(),
vtb_infobasket_team_comps(),
vtb_infobasket_team_games(),
vtb_infobasket_team_player_stats(),
vtb_infobasket_team_preview(),
vtb_infobasket_team_season_stats(),
vtb_infobasket_team_seasons(),
vtb_infobasket_team_stats(),
vtb_infobasket_team_stats_coaches(),
vtb_infobasket_team_stats_players(),
vtb_league_leagues(),
vtb_league_matches(),
vtb_league_seasons()