Returns draft prospect rankings for a given year and prospect category.
Uses the new NHL API endpoint at
api-web.nhle.com/v1/draft/rankings/{year}/{prospect_category}.
The original per-prospect-ID endpoint is no longer available. This function now returns rankings filtered by year and category.
Value
A data frame (fastRhockey_data) with the following columns:
| col_name | types | description |
| last_name | character | Prospect last name. |
| first_name | character | Prospect first name. |
| position_code | character | Player position code. |
| shoots_catches | character | Handedness (shoots/catches). |
| height_in_inches | integer | Height in inches. |
| weight_in_pounds | integer | Weight in pounds. |
| last_amateur_club | character | Last amateur club played for. |
| last_amateur_league | character | Last amateur league played in. |
| birth_date | character | Prospect birth date. |
| birth_city | character | Prospect birth city. |
| birth_state_province | character | Prospect birth state or province. |
| birth_country | character | Prospect birth country. |
| midterm_rank | integer | Midterm ranking for the prospect. |
| final_rank | integer | Final ranking for the prospect. |
Examples
# \donttest{
try(nhl_draft_prospects_info(year = 2024, prospect_category = 1))
#> ── NHL Draft Prospects Information from NHL.com ─────────── fastRhockey 1.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-13 03:24:56 UTC
#> # A tibble: 251 × 14
#> last_name first_name position_code shoots_catches height_in_inches
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Celebrini Macklin C L 72
#> 2 Levshunov Artyom D R 74
#> 3 Lindstrom Cayden C L 75
#> 4 Buium Zeev D L 72
#> 5 Parekh Zayne D R 72
#> 6 Connelly Trevor LW L 73
#> 7 Dickinson Sam D L 75
#> 8 Catton Berkly C L 70
#> 9 Iginla Tij C L 72
#> 10 Hage Michael C R 73
#> # ℹ 241 more rows
#> # ℹ 9 more variables: weight_in_pounds <int>, last_amateur_club <chr>,
#> # last_amateur_league <chr>, birth_date <chr>, birth_city <chr>,
#> # birth_state_province <chr>, birth_country <chr>, midterm_rank <int>,
#> # final_rank <int>
# }