This function scrapes team match-by-match and player season statistics for Athletes Unlimited (UA), League One Volleyball (LOVB), or Major League Volleyball (MLV) players and teams from the official websites.
Arguments
- league
A character string specifying which league to retrieve. Must be "AU", "LOVB" or "MLV".
- team
A character string specifying the team name or city. Accepts city names (e.g., "Omaha", "Atlanta") or variations like "Indianapolis" (converted to "Indy") and "Las Vegas" (converted to "Vegas"). Must match one of the valid LOVB or MLV team cities. AU has no teams.
- year
A numeric value specifying the year for which to retrieve statistics. Must be 2024 or later for LOVB or MLV and 2021 or later for AU.
- level
A character string specifying whether to extract the "team" or individual "player" statistics. AU has no team statistics.
- stored
A logical specifying whether to use stored data for previous years (TRUE is default) or force the function to scrape the website (FALSE)
Note
This function requires:
The
{selenider}R package for web automationGoogle Chrome browser installed on the system
An active internet connection
The function uses a headless Chrome browser session, so no browser window will be visible during execution. Browser sessions are automatically closed after data extraction.
See also
Other statistics functions:
au_stats(),
group_stats(),
lovb_stats(),
mlv_stats()
Examples
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# Get Omaha Supernovas 2024 match statistics
get_stats(league = "AU", year = 2025)
get_stats(league = "LOVB", team = "Austin", year = 2025, level = "team")
get_stats(league = "LOVB", team = "Austin", year = 2025, level = "player")
get_stats(league = "MLV", team = "Omaha", year = 2024, level = "team")
get_stats(league = "MLV", team = "Omaha", year = 2024, level = "player")
}