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/ function_get_espn_wp_college.R
Created
April 15, 2020 18:47
Function for scraping win probability data from the ESPN API. Outputs game_id, play_id and home_wp and should therefore be joinable to cfbscrapR data.
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| library(dplyr) | |
| get_espn_wp_college <- function(espn_game_id) { | |
| espn_wp <- data.frame() | |
| tryCatch( | |
| expr = { | |
| espn_wp <- | |
| httr::GET(url = glue::glue("http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/summary?event={espn_game_id}")) %>% | |
| httr::content(as = "text", encoding = "UTF-8") %>% | |
| jsonlite::fromJSON(flatten = TRUE) %>% | |
| purrr::pluck("winprobability") %>% |
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