Getting Started with wehoop

November 8, 2021 · 3 min read

Welcome folks,

I'm Saiem Gilani, one of the authors of wehoop, and I hope to give the community a high-quality resource for accessing women's basketball data for statistical analysis, basketball research, and more. I am excited to show you some of what you can do with this edition of the package.

Installing R and RStudio#

Head to https://cran.r-project.org
Select the appropriate link for your operating system (Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux)

Windows - Select base and download the most recent version
Mac OS X - Select Latest Release, but check to make sure your OS is the correct version. Look through Binaries for Legacy OS X Systems if you are on an older release
Linux - Select the appropriate distro and follow the installation instructions

Head to RStudio.com
Follow the associated download and installation instructions for RStudio.
Start peering over the RStudio IDE Cheatsheet. An IDE is an integrated development environment.

Install `wehoop`#

# You can install using the pacman package using the following code:if (!requireNamespace('pacman', quietly = TRUE)){  install.packages('pacman')}pacman::p_load_current_gh("saiemgilani/wehoop")

Quick Start#

WNBA full play-by-play seasons (2002-2021) ~ 1-2 minutes#

future::plan("multisession")tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({  wnba_pbp <- wehoop::load_wnba_pbp(2002:2021)})tictoc::toc()

## 16.56 sec elapsed

## 10.36 sec elapsedlength(unique(wnba_pbp$game_id))

## [1] 4575

nrow(wnba_pbp)

## [1] 1746086

WNBA full team box score seasons (2002-2021) ~ 5-30 seconds#

future::plan("multisession")tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({  wnba_team_box <- wehoop::load_wnba_team_box(2002:2021)})tictoc::toc()

## 8.57 sec elapsed

length(unique(wnba_team_box$game_id))

## [1] 4213

nrow(wnba_team_box)

## [1] 8426

WNBA full player box score seasons (2002-2021) ~ 5-30 seconds#

future::plan("multisession")tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({  wnba_player_box <- wehoop::load_wnba_player_box(2002:2021)})tictoc::toc()

## 8.51 sec elapsed

length(unique(wnba_player_box$game_id))

## [1] 4578

nrow(wnba_player_box)

## [1] 98859

Women's college basketball full play-by-play seasons (2002-2021) ~ 45-90 seconds#

future::plan("multisession")tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({  wbb_pbp <- wehoop::load_wbb_pbp(2002:2021)})tictoc::toc()

## 56.55 sec elapsed

length(unique(wbb_pbp$game_id))

## [1] 26023

nrow(wbb_pbp)

## [1] 8650487

Women's college basketball full team box score seasons (2002-2021) ~ 5-30 seconds#

future::plan("multisession")tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({  wbb_team_box <- wehoop::load_wbb_team_box(2002:2021)})tictoc::toc()

## 8.71 sec elapsed

length(unique(wbb_team_box$game_id))

## [1] 20762

nrow(wbb_team_box)

## [1] 41524

Women's college basketball full player box score seasons (2002-2021) ~ 5-30 seconds#

future::plan("multisession")tictoc::tic()progressr::with_progress({  wbb_player_box <- wehoop::load_wbb_player_box(2002:2021)})tictoc::toc()

## 10.27 sec elapsed

length(unique(wbb_player_box$game_id))

## [1] 28957

nrow(wbb_player_box)

## [1] 488041