Get ESPN WCH Game Plays (core-v2 Play-by-Play)
Arguments
- event_id
ESPN event (game) identifier. Use
espn_wch_scoreboard()$game_idto find valid event ids.- cid
Competition identifier. Defaults to
event_id(for WCH the single competition always has the same id as its parent event).- limit
Maximum number of plays to return. Defaults to
1000. A typical WCH game has 200-260 plays.- ...
Reserved for forward compatibility.
Value
A fastRhockey_data tibble with one row per play:
| col_name | types | description |
| event_id | character | ESPN event id (echoed from arg). |
| cid | character | Competition id (echoed from arg). |
| id | character | ESPN play identifier. |
| sequence_number | integer | Play sequence number within the game. |
| type_id | character | Play type id. |
| type_text | character | Play type label (e.g. "Goal", "Shot", "Face Off"). |
| type_abbreviation | character | Play type abbreviation. |
| text | character | Full play description text. |
| short_text | character | Short play description text. |
| period_number | integer | Period number (1-3 regulation, 4+ OT). |
| period_display | character | Period display string (e.g. "1st"). |
| clock_value | numeric | Clock value in seconds. |
| clock_display | character | Clock display string (e.g. "19:34"). |
| away_score | integer | Away team score after this play. |
| home_score | integer | Home team score after this play. |
| scoring_play | logical | Whether this play resulted in a goal. |
| score_value | integer | Point value of the scoring play (1 for a goal). |
| priority | logical | Whether this is a priority play for display. |
| shooting_play | logical | Whether this is a shot on goal. |
| is_penalty | logical | Whether this is a penalty play. |
| wallclock | character | Wall-clock UTC timestamp of the play. |
| coordinate_x | numeric | X coordinate on the ice surface. |
| coordinate_y | numeric | Y coordinate on the ice surface. |
| strength_id | character | Strength situation id (e.g. even strength, PP, SH). |
| strength_text | character | Strength situation description. |
| team_ref | character | $ref URL for the team associated with the play. |
| play_ref | character | $ref URL for this play object. |
Details
League slug womens-college-hockey; season is the END year (2026 = 2025-26). Same ESPN helper as espn_nhl_game_plays() (columns inherited); a collection may be empty.
See also
Other ESPN WCH Functions:
espn_wch_award(),
espn_wch_awards(),
espn_wch_calendar(),
espn_wch_coach(),
espn_wch_coach_record(),
espn_wch_coach_season(),
espn_wch_conferences(),
espn_wch_draft(),
espn_wch_fpi(),
espn_wch_franchise(),
espn_wch_franchises(),
espn_wch_game(),
espn_wch_game_broadcasts(),
espn_wch_game_competition(),
espn_wch_game_leaders(),
espn_wch_game_odds(),
espn_wch_game_official_detail(),
espn_wch_game_officials(),
espn_wch_game_play(),
espn_wch_game_play_personnel(),
espn_wch_game_powerindex(),
espn_wch_game_predictor(),
espn_wch_game_probabilities(),
espn_wch_game_propbets(),
espn_wch_game_scoringplays(),
espn_wch_game_situation(),
espn_wch_game_status(),
espn_wch_game_team(),
espn_wch_game_team_leaders(),
espn_wch_game_team_linescores(),
espn_wch_game_team_record(),
espn_wch_game_team_roster(),
espn_wch_game_team_statistics(),
espn_wch_game_teams(),
espn_wch_games(),
espn_wch_injuries(),
espn_wch_leaders(),
espn_wch_leaders_core(),
espn_wch_league_notes(),
espn_wch_league_root(),
espn_wch_news(),
espn_wch_player_awards(),
espn_wch_player_bio(),
espn_wch_player_career_stats(),
espn_wch_player_contracts(),
espn_wch_player_core(),
espn_wch_player_eventlog(),
espn_wch_player_gamelog(),
espn_wch_player_info(),
espn_wch_player_injuries(),
espn_wch_player_news(),
espn_wch_player_notes(),
espn_wch_player_overview(),
espn_wch_player_records(),
espn_wch_player_seasons(),
espn_wch_player_splits(),
espn_wch_player_statisticslog(),
espn_wch_player_stats(),
espn_wch_player_vs_player(),
espn_wch_players_index(),
espn_wch_position(),
espn_wch_positions(),
espn_wch_rankings(),
espn_wch_recruiting_players(),
espn_wch_recruiting_rankings(),
espn_wch_recruiting_years(),
espn_wch_scoreboard(),
espn_wch_season_awards(),
espn_wch_season_coaches(),
espn_wch_season_draft(),
espn_wch_season_draft_round_picks(),
espn_wch_season_freeagents(),
espn_wch_season_futures(),
espn_wch_season_group(),
espn_wch_season_group_children(),
espn_wch_season_group_teams(),
espn_wch_season_groups(),
espn_wch_season_info(),
espn_wch_season_players(),
espn_wch_season_pointer(),
espn_wch_season_powerindex(),
espn_wch_season_powerindex_leaders(),
espn_wch_season_recruits(),
espn_wch_season_team(),
espn_wch_season_teams(),
espn_wch_season_type(),
espn_wch_season_type_corrections(),
espn_wch_season_type_leaders(),
espn_wch_season_types(),
espn_wch_season_week(),
espn_wch_season_week_games(),
espn_wch_season_week_powerindex(),
espn_wch_season_week_rankings(),
espn_wch_season_weeks(),
espn_wch_seasons(),
espn_wch_standings(),
espn_wch_standings_core(),
espn_wch_statistics_league(),
espn_wch_summary(),
espn_wch_talentpicks(),
espn_wch_team(),
espn_wch_team_core(),
espn_wch_team_depthcharts(),
espn_wch_team_history(),
espn_wch_team_injuries(),
espn_wch_team_leaders(),
espn_wch_team_news(),
espn_wch_team_record(),
espn_wch_team_roster(),
espn_wch_team_schedule(),
espn_wch_team_transactions(),
espn_wch_teams_core(),
espn_wch_teams_site(),
espn_wch_tournaments(),
espn_wch_transactions(),
espn_wch_venue(),
espn_wch_venues()
Examples
# \donttest{
try({
sb <- espn_wch_scoreboard(dates = "20250110")
espn_wch_game_plays(event_id = sb$game_id[1])
})
#> ✖ 2026-10-13 01:53:45.018692:
#> ✖ Args: league = "womens-college-hockey", event_id = NULL, cid = NULL, limit = 1000
#> ✖ Error: The API returned an error
#> data frame with 0 columns and 0 rows
# }