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A cached table of MFL players. Will store in memory for each session! (via memoise in zzz.R)

Usage

mfl_players(conn = NULL)

Arguments

conn

optionally, pass in a conn object generated by ff_connect to receive league-specific custom players

Value

a dataframe containing all ~2000+ players in the MFL database

Examples

# \donttest{
try({ # try only shown here because sometimes CRAN checks are weird
  player_list <- mfl_players()
  dplyr::sample_n(player_list, 5)
}) # end try
#> # A tibble: 5 × 25
#>   player_id player_name         pos     age team  status draft_year draft_team
#>   <chr>     <chr>               <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr>  <chr>      <chr>     
#> 1 15404     Jones, Ernest       LB     22.6 LAR   NA     2021       LAR       
#> 2 13502     Hamilton, Justin    DT     28.9 WAS   NA     2016       FA        
#> 3 12955     Manhertz, Chris     TE     30.2 JAC   NA     2016       FA        
#> 4 0706      Bengals, Cincinnati TMPK   NA   CIN   NA     1970       CIN       
#> 5 11261     Moore, Damontre     DE     29.8 FA    NA     2013       NYG       
#> # … with 17 more variables: draft_round <chr>, draft_pick <chr>,
#> #   stats_global_id <chr>, stats_id <chr>, fleaflicker_id <chr>, cbs_id <chr>,
#> #   sportsdata_id <chr>, rotoworld_id <chr>, rotowire_id <chr>, espn_id <chr>,
#> #   nfl_id <chr>, twitter_username <chr>, college <chr>, height <chr>,
#> #   weight <chr>, birthdate <date>, jersey <chr>
# }