Loads information about college basketball rankings, polls, etc.
At present, only the AP Top 25 and Coaches Polls are available from this function. Ranking, first place votes, and over points are available for each week of the season dating back to 1949.
See also
https://john-b-edwards.github.io/cbbreadr/articles/dictionary_rankings.html for a web version of the data dictionary
dictionary_rankings for the data dictionary as bundled within the package
Issues with this data should be filed here: https://github.com/john-b-edwards/cbbd-data/issues
Examples
# \donttest{
try({ # avoid cran errors
load_rankings()
})
#> season season_type week poll_date poll_type team_id
#> <int> <char> <int> <char> <char> <int>
#> 1: 2025 regular 1 2024-10-14T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 131
#> 2: 2025 regular 1 2024-10-14T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 5
#> 3: 2025 regular 1 2024-10-14T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 314
#> 4: 2025 regular 1 2024-10-14T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 113
#> 5: 2025 regular 1 2024-10-14T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 125
#> ---
#> 55807: 1949 regular 7 1949-02-28T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 425
#> 55808: 1949 regular 7 1949-02-28T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 338
#> 55809: 1949 regular 7 1949-02-28T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 360
#> 55810: 1949 regular 7 1949-02-28T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 216
#> 55811: 1949 regular 7 1949-02-28T00:00:00.000Z AP Top 25 12
#> team_name conference_short_name ranking points first_place_votes
#> <char> <char> <int> <int> <int>
#> 1: Kansas Big 12 1 1449 30
#> 2: Alabama SEC 2 1428 14
#> 3: UConn Big East 3 1345 11
#> 4: Houston Big 12 4 1343 4
#> 5: Iowa State Big 12 5 1177 0
#> ---
#> 55807: Hamline <NA> 16 NA NA
#> 55808: Villanova Indep. 17 NA NA
#> 55809: Yale Ivy 18 NA NA
#> 55810: Ohio State Big Ten 19 NA NA
#> 55811: Arkansas <NA> 20 NA NA
# }