Loaders for season-level PWHL datasets published as GitHub releases on
sportsdataverse/sportsdataverse-data. Each helper is a thin wrapper
around .pwhl_release_loader() which validates seasons, builds the
per-asset URLs from a (release_tag, file_prefix) pair, downloads in
parallel with optional progressr progress + optional DBI::DBIConnection
insertion, and tags the result with the fastRhockey_data S3 class.
Adding a new dataset is one new row in the catalog table below.
Details
Loader catalog
| Function | Release tag | File prefix |
load_pwhl_pbp() | pwhl_pbp | play_by_play |
load_pwhl_player_box() | pwhl_player_boxscores | player_box |
load_pwhl_skater_box() | pwhl_skater_boxscores | skater_box |
load_pwhl_goalie_box() | pwhl_goalie_boxscores | goalie_box |
load_pwhl_team_box() | pwhl_team_boxscores | team_box |
load_pwhl_schedule() | pwhl_schedules | pwhl_schedule |
load_pwhl_rosters() | pwhl_rosters | rosters |
load_pwhl_game_rosters() | pwhl_game_rosters | game_rosters |
load_pwhl_game_info() | pwhl_game_info | game_info |
load_pwhl_scoring_summary() | pwhl_scoring_summary | scoring_summary |
load_pwhl_penalty_summary() | pwhl_penalty_summary | penalty_summary |
load_pwhl_three_stars() | pwhl_three_stars | three_stars |
load_pwhl_officials() | pwhl_officials | officials |
load_pwhl_shots_by_period() | pwhl_shots_by_period | shots_by_period |
load_pwhl_shootout() | pwhl_shootout | shootout_summary |
DB helper
| Function | Purpose |
update_pwhl_db() | Idempotent loader -> DB writer (delta only) |
Season Convention
PWHL loaders use the end year of the season (e.g. 2026 for the
2025-26 season), matching most_recent_pwhl_season().
Default season
When seasons is left at its default and the newest season's file is not
published yet (it appears with the season's first games), the loader falls
back to the season before it and says so in a message. An explicit request
for that season is kept as asked and returns an empty frame with a warning.