Every faceoff of one match: time, dot, winner and loser.
Wraps GET https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/icehl.hokejovyzapis.cz/matches/{match_id}/faceoffs.json of the ICE Hockey League eSports bucket. Example: https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/icehl.hokejovyzapis.cz/matches/8161/faceoffs.json.
Seasons are END years (2027 = 2026/27); every request waits at least one second after
the last one to the same host.
Value
A tibble::tibble() with one row per row of the file (zero rows, carrying the documented columns, for an empty frame); the raw JSON list when return_parsed = FALSE. Columns:
| col_name | type | description |
| id | integer | Face-off id (face-off key space); no other captured file joins to it. |
| time | integer | Seconds of game time from the opening face-off (0-3600 in regulation, continuing through overtime). |
| realtime | character | Wall-clock local time, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. |
| position | character | Face-off dot: BULY_CENTRAL or BULY_{HOME/AWAY}_{DEFENSE/BLUE}_{LEFT/RIGHT}. |
| position_shortcut | character | Short dot code, e.g. C, HDL (home defence left), HDR. |
| winner_id | integer | Player id (player key space, per bucket, stable across games and seasons); joins to playerId in rosters, events, boxscores and leaderboards. |
| winner_name | character | Player full name. |
| loser_id | integer | Player id (playerId key space) of the faceoff loser (DEL spells the key losser, ICEHL looser). |
| loser_name | character | Full name of the faceoff loser. |
Errors
Signalled as classed conditions: fastRhockey_no_data when the bucket has no such key (S3 404 NoSuchKey: unknown season, competition, match or team) or the file holds no rows (an unplayed game, an empty shot shell); fastRhockey_asset_fetch for any other non-2xx answer (403 AccessDenied), a connection failure after retries, an empty or unreadable 200 body, an error envelope, a body of the wrong shape, or a body for another season or game; fastRhockey_bad_request for an HTTP 400/422 or an invalid argument. All three also inherit fastRhockey_error. Wrappers raise; they never warn and return an empty frame.
See also
ICE Hockey League (the league site whose widgets read this public eSports bucket)
Other ICE Hockey League eSports functions:
icehl_game_center(),
icehl_game_info(),
icehl_goalie_box(),
icehl_league_part_player_stats(),
icehl_pbp(),
icehl_player_box(),
icehl_schedule(),
icehl_shots(),
icehl_standings(),
icehl_team_player_stats(),
icehl_top_scorers()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(icehl_faceoffs(match_id = 8161))
#> ── ICE Hockey League faceoffs from the eSports hokejovyzapis bucket ────────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-13 01:54:21 UTC
#> # A tibble: 62 × 9
#> id time realtime position position_shortcut winner_id winner_name
#> <int> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <chr>
#> 1 23364 0 2026-09-18 18:3… BULY_CE… C 4701 David Silye
#> 2 23365 54 2026-09-18 18:3… BULY_HO… HDL 4108 Topi Rönni
#> 3 23366 118 2026-09-18 18:3… BULY_HO… HDR 4109 Aku Kestila
#> 4 23367 307 2026-09-18 18:3… BULY_HO… HDR 4109 Aku Kestila
#> 5 23368 322 2026-09-18 18:3… BULY_HO… HBL 4115 Gergely Tó…
#> 6 23369 433 2026-09-18 18:4… BULY_CE… C 4109 Aku Kestila
#> 7 23370 456 2026-09-18 18:4… BULY_AW… ADR 4109 Aku Kestila
#> 8 23371 466 2026-09-18 18:4… BULY_AW… ADR 4948 Christophe…
#> 9 23372 533 2026-09-18 18:4… BULY_CE… C 1075 Žiga Jeglič
#> 10 23373 592 2026-09-18 18:4… BULY_CE… C 3534 Zach Boych…
#> # ℹ 52 more rows
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: loser_id <int>, loser_name <chr>
# }