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The main goal of ffscrapr 1.3.0 is to add support for the ESPN platform. It also includes several bug fixes, code quality improvements, and a major refactor of tests to reduce overall package size.

A huge thank-you goes to Tony ElHabr for his contributions to the package for the ESPN methods.

Breaking Changes

  • custom_players arguments are deprecated for MFL - it will now return them by default.

ESPN Details

ESPN is a tricky and undocumented API. Private leagues are accessible if you use the SWID/ESPN_S2 authentication arguments, which are a lot like API keys - see the ESPN authentication vignette.

Unsupported functions:

  • ff_draftpicks() - this does not apply to ESPN primarily because it does not support draft pick trades.
  • ff_userleagues() - ESPN does not support looking up user's leagues, even when authenticated
  • Username and password features - ESPN used to have a way to authenticate via username/password, but this has been recently made more difficult. It is an area that can be revisited if/when the Python package manages it, but at this time will only be accessible with the SWID/ESPN_S2 keys.

New Functions

  • dp_cleannames() is a utility function for cleaning player names that removes common suffixes, periods, and apostrophes.
  • espn_potentialpoints() calculates the optimal lineup for each week. This is

Minor patches

  • Converted GET requests to use httr::RETRY instead - this adds some robustness for server-side issues. As suggested by Maelle Salmon's blog post on not reinventing the wheel.
  • Added some type conversions and renaming for snake_case consistency to mfl_rosters and mfl_playerscores
  • Fixed bug in MFL's ff_playerscores() function so that it correctly pulls older names. (Resolves #196)
  • Refactored all tests to move test cache files to a separate/non-package location (https://github.com/dynastyprocess/ffscrapr-tests) - so that it is not included in CRAN's package sizing
  • Fixed bugs in MFL's ff_starters() function - bad default arg, bad players call. (Fixes #202)
  • Resolve MFL's playerscores to handle vectorized request (Fixes #206)
  • Resolve bugs related to .fn_choose_season for tests (Fixes #217, #219)
  • Resolved bug in MFL's ff_rosters() by adding a week parameter (Fixes #215)
  • Coerced ff_transactions() bid_amount into a numeric (Fixes #210)
  • Removed bye franchises from ff_starters() (Fixes #212)
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