One game's player box score: goals, assists, shots, faceoffs, ice time, goaltending.
Arguments
- game_id
SIHF game id, 14 digits
<season(4)><competition(4)><sequence(6)>(game_idinnl_schedule(); the same id as the SIHF family'sgame_id), e.g.20261105000325. A whole number or a digit string; 14 digits are exact as a double, so do not format them throughinteger.- return_parsed
Logical.
TRUE(the default) returns thefastRhockey_datatibble;FALSEreturns the raw JSON body as a nested list (api keys already dropped).
Value
A fastRhockey_data tibble (38 columns) with the columns below, or the raw JSON body when return_parsed = FALSE.
A valid but empty payload returns a zero-row tibble with these columns.
| col_name | type | description |
| game_id | numeric | SIHF game id <season(4)><competition(4)><sequence(6)> (whole number; e.g. 20261105000325, 1105 = National League). The same id as the sihf family's game_id; its first four digits are the season END year. |
| team_side | character | home or away: the side of the team this row belongs to. |
| team_id | numeric | SIHF team id (whole number; e.g. 101151 = HC Davos). The same key space as the sihf family's team_id. |
| player_id | numeric | SIHF licence number (whole number; e.g. 305519 = Tobias Geisser). Joins the sihf family's player_id and every SIHF *LicenceNr. |
| number | character | Sweater number, a string |
| first_name | character | First (given) name of the player |
| last_name | character | Last (family) name of the player |
| short_name | character | Initial and last name, e.g. 'S. Aeschlimann' |
| name | character | First and last name |
| position | character | goalkeeper, defender or forwarder (sic) |
| fow | integer | Number of faceoffs won |
| fol | integer | Number of faceoffs lost |
| sog | integer | Number of shots on goal |
| shm | integer | Shots that missed the net |
| shp | integer | Shots that hit the post |
| shb | integer | Own shots blocked by an opponent |
| bks | integer | Opponent shots blocked |
| toi | integer | Time on ice, seconds |
| toi_eq | integer | Even-strength time on ice, seconds |
| toi_pp | integer | Power-play time on ice, seconds |
| toi_pk | integer | Shorthanded time on ice, seconds |
| pim | integer | Penalty minutes |
| g | integer | Number of goals scored |
| a1 | integer | First (primary) assists credited |
| a2 | integer | Second (secondary) assists credited |
| pl | integer | Plus count: on ice for an even-strength or shorthanded goal for |
| mi | integer | Minus count: on ice for a goal against |
| mip | integer | Goaltender time played, hundredths of a minute (6000 = 60:00; = seconds / 0.6) |
| ga | integer | Goals against: number of goals conceded |
| svs | integer | Number of saves made by the goaltender |
| sa | integer | Shots on goal against |
| gaa | numeric | Goals-against average; 0 in every sampled row, even for goaltenders who conceded |
| save_percentage | numeric | Save percentage, 0-100 |
| faceoffs | integer | Faceoffs taken (upstream fo: fow + fol). Not penalties. |
| faceoffs_percentage | numeric | Faceoff win percentage (upstream foPercentage); -1 without faceoffs. |
| a | integer | Assists (a1 + a2) |
| pts | integer | Points (goals + assists) |
| pl_mi | integer | Plus/minus (pl - mi) |
Details
robots.txt ruling. www.nationalleague.ch/robots.txt disallows /api. The owner approved building on it
on 2026-10-12, for polite, incremental use only: requests are spaced at least one second apart (on every
attempt, retries included), and a bulk backfill or a published mirror needs the owner's sign-off first. Crawl
incrementally: fetch a finished game once (keyed by game_id), find new games with one nl_schedule() call
per run, and fetch season tables at most once per game day.
Seasons are END years and go on the wire unchanged. Ids (*_id) are whole-number numeric (a 14-digit
game_id exceeds R's 32-bit integer); every other whole-number column is integer. The club backend key the
API ships in /teams/{id}/info is dropped before parsing and never returned.
Endpoint: GET https://www.nationalleague.ch/api/games/{gameId}.
The six game-page wrappers (nl_game_overview(), nl_pbp(), nl_lineups(), nl_player_box(),
nl_team_stats(), nl_shots()) each read the same /games/{gameId} body, one request each.
Errors
Raises a classed condition (all inherit fastRhockey_error): fastRhockey_no_data for a 404 or an empty answer (no
games or rows for that season, team or phase), fastRhockey_asset_fetch for a failed fetch, an error object in a 200, a body
without the ids it must carry, or an answer for another season, team, game or player, and fastRhockey_bad_request
for a 400/422 or an argument that is not a whole number.
See also
Other National League Functions:
nl_current_games(),
nl_game_overview(),
nl_lineups(),
nl_pbp(),
nl_player_season(),
nl_player_stats(),
nl_playoffs(),
nl_playouts(),
nl_schedule(),
nl_shots(),
nl_standings(),
nl_team_info(),
nl_team_player_stats(),
nl_team_schedule(),
nl_team_stats(),
nl_top_scorers()
Examples
# \donttest{
try(nl_player_box(game_id = 20261105000325))
#> ── National League Player Box Score Information from nationalleague.ch ─────────
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-10-13 01:58:23 UTC
#> # A tibble: 44 × 38
#> game_id team_side team_id player_id number first_name last_name short_name
#> <dbl> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2.03e13 home 101151 150983 29 Sandro Aeschlimann S. Aeschli…
#> 2 2.03e13 home 101151 309536 51 Luca Hollenstein L. Hollens…
#> 3 2.03e13 home 101151 153736 38 Lukas Frick L. Frick
#> 4 2.03e13 home 101151 340162 6 Klas Dahlbeck K. Dahlbeck
#> 5 2.03e13 home 101151 152416 90 Sven Jung S. Jung
#> 6 2.03e13 home 101151 322236 55 Calle Andersson C. Anderss…
#> 7 2.03e13 home 101151 153207 20 Michael Fora M. Fora
#> 8 2.03e13 home 101151 312287 57 Davyd Barandun D. Barandun
#> 9 2.03e13 home 101151 308175 77 Nico Gross N. Gross
#> 10 2.03e13 home 101151 301617 72 Tino Kessler T. Kessler
#> # ℹ 34 more rows
#> # ℹ 30 more variables: name <chr>, position <chr>, fow <int>, fol <int>,
#> # sog <int>, shm <int>, shp <int>, shb <int>, bks <int>, toi <int>,
#> # toi_eq <int>, toi_pp <int>, toi_pk <int>, pim <int>, g <int>, a1 <int>,
#> # a2 <int>, pl <int>, mi <int>, mip <int>, ga <int>, svs <int>, sa <int>,
#> # gaa <dbl>, save_percentage <dbl>, faceoffs <int>,
#> # faceoffs_percentage <dbl>, a <int>, pts <int>, pl_mi <int>
# }