wsba-hockey 1.0.1

WeakSide Breakout's complete Python package of access to hockey data, primairly including the scraping of National Hockey League schedule, play-by-play, and shifts information.

WSBA HOCKEY

A Python package for scraping and analyzing hockey data under the motto: Evaluating, analyzing, and understanding the game of hockey through the lens of different analytical methods, including incorporation of analytics.

INSTALLATION AND USAGE

pip install wsba_hockey

import wsba_hockey as wsba

ALL FEATURES

Note: Features yet included are marked with *

SCRAPING

NHL Play-by-Play (of any game frame up to a full season)

Functions:

wsba.nhl_scrape_game(['2024020918'],split_shifts=False,remove=['game-end'])
wsba.nhl_scrape_season('20242025',split_shifts=False,remove=['game-end'],local=True)

NHL Season Information

wsba.nhl_scrape_schedule('20242025')
wsba.nhl_scrape_seasons_info(seasons=['20212022','20222023','20232024','20242025'])
wsba.nhl_scrape_standings(arg = '2024-03-20')

NHL Rosters and Player Information

wsba.nhl_scrape_roster('20242025')
wsba.nhl_scrape_team_info()

NHL Draft Rankings and Prospects

wsba.nhl_scrape_draft_rankings()
wsba.nhl_scrape_prospects('BOS')

DATA ANALYTICS

Expected Goals (WeakSide Breakout and MoneyPuck models)

Goal Impacts and Shot Analysis

Stat Aggregation

pbp = wsba.nhl_scrape_season('20232024',remove=[], local = True)
wsba.nhl_calculate_stats(pbp,'skater',[2],['5v5','4v4','3v3'],xg='moneypuck',shot_impact = True)

Shot Plotting (Plots, Heatmaps, etc.)

skater_dict = {
    'Patrice Bergeron':['20212022','BOS']
}
pbp = wsba.nhl_scrape_season('20212022',remove=[], local = True)

wsba.nhl_plot_skaters_shots(pbp,skater_dict,['5v5'],onice='for',legend=True)
wsba.nhl_plot_games(pbp,legend=True)

REPOSITORY

Past Season Play-by-Play

wsba.repo_load_pbp(seasons=['20212022','20222023','20232024','20242025'])

Team Information

wsba.repo_load_teaminfo()
wsba.repo_load_rosters(seasons=['20212022','20222023','20232024','20242025'])

Schedule

wsba.repo_load_schedule(seasons=['20212022','20222023','20232024','20242025'])

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS

Huge thanks to the following:

Harry Shomer - Creator of the hockey_scraper package, which contains select utils functions within this package and otherwise inspires the creation of this package.

Dan Morse - Creator of the hockeyR package; another important inspiration and model for developing an NHL scraper.

Patrick Bacon - Creator of TopDownHockey package

MoneyPuck - Source of available xG data in the package

Anyone in the NHL Public Analytics community who has stuck around and supported WeakSide Breakout Analysis hockey.