KHL Playoff Bracket

Playoff bracket: one row per team per series.

Usage

khl_playoff_bracket(
  season = NULL,
  headers = NULL,
  tournament_id = NULL,
  return_parsed = TRUE
)

Arguments

season

Season by its END year (2026 = 2025-26), mapped to the KHL tournament id (tnId) through the webcaster season table (khl_webcaster_stages). Required unless tournament_id is given.

headers

Named list of extra request headers, merged over the defaults (X-Requested-With, Origin, Referer). The cookie jar and sessid are kept in-process, so nothing needs reusing across calls.

tournament_id

khl.ru tournament id (tnId), sent as is instead of season / stage (1369 = 2025-26 regular season, 1370 its playoff; the schedule's tournament_id column). The All-Star games have their own.

return_parsed

Logical. TRUE (default) returns the parsed fastRhockey_data tibble; FALSE returns the raw khl.ru envelope as a list (status, data, errors; betting fields removed).

Value

A fastRhockey_data tibble (9 columns; zero rows with the same columns when the payload is empty), or the raw body as a list when return_parsed = FALSE. Raises fastRhockey_no_data (nothing there, or an unknown season / stage), fastRhockey_asset_fetch (an error envelope, an answer for another id than the one asked, or a failed fetch) and fastRhockey_bad_request (an invalid argument or an HTTP 400 / 422).

col_name	types	description
round	integer	Playoff round number
wins_to_advance	integer	Wins needed to win a series of the round
pair	integer	Series number within the round
conference	character	Conference (west / east)
seed	integer	Conference seed
club_id	integer	khl.ru CLUB id (stable across seasons; joins webcaster team khl_id)
name	character	Name in Russian (Cyrillic); the *_en / *en sibling holds the English transliteration
series_wins	integer	Wins in the series so far
game_ids	character	khl.ru game ids of the series, comma-joined

Details

Endpoint: POST https://www.khl.ru/rest/standings/playoff/.

khl.ru REST needs a primed session (a GET of the site root sets the cookie jar and the Bitrix sessid, then each call POSTs a form); this is done for you, one session per host per R session, re-primed when the site rotates its cookie or the sessid expires. No route takes a year: season (the END year, 2026 = 2025/26) and stage are mapped to the tournament id (tnId) through the webcaster season table, or pass tournament_id (the All-Star games have their own tnId).

Ids and counts are integers (sdv-py Int64); a column holding values past 2^31 (epoch milliseconds) is returned as a whole-number double.

At least one second is left between two requests to a host.

Owner flag (sanctions). The KHL and its webcaster platform are run by Russian operators, some clubs by sanctioned state companies. Fetching on your own machine is fine; any published data release, hosted mirror or redistribution needs owner (sanctions / legal) sign-off first.

See also

Other KHL Functions: khl_game_header(), khl_game_info(), khl_game_protocol(), khl_pbp(), khl_player_box(), khl_player_career(), khl_player_profile(), khl_player_stats(), khl_roster(), khl_schedule(), khl_shots(), khl_standings(), khl_stat_filters(), khl_webcaster_event(), khl_webcaster_events(), khl_webcaster_leaders(), khl_webcaster_players(), khl_webcaster_players_light(), khl_webcaster_stages(), khl_webcaster_tables(), khl_webcaster_team(), khl_webcaster_teams()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(khl_playoff_bracket(season = 2026))
#> ── KHL Playoff Bracket from khl.ru ─────────────────── fastRhockey 1.0.0.9000 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-13 01:54:53 UTC
#> # A tibble: 30 × 9
#>    round wins_to_advance  pair conference  seed club_id name         series_wins
#>    <int>           <int> <int> <chr>      <int>   <int> <chr>              <int>
#>  1     1               4     1 west           1       1 Локомотив              4
#>  2     1               4     1 west           8       7 Спартак                1
#>  3     1               4     2 east           4     190 Автомобилист           2
#>  4     1               4     2 east           5      38 Салават Юла…           4
#>  5     1               4     3 east           2      34 Авангард               4
#>  6     1               4     3 east           7      71 Нефтехимик             1
#>  7     1               4     4 west           4       2 ЦСКА                   4
#>  8     1               4     4 west           5      24 СКА                    1
#>  9     1               4     5 east           1      37 Металлург Мг           4
#> 10     1               4     5 east           8      29 Сибирь                 1
#> # ℹ 20 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: game_ids <chr>
# }