A data package for querying rider data from procyclingstats.com
The goal of pcs is to provide programmatic methods for querying professional cycling race results and rider biographical information from procyclingstats.com.
devtools::install_github("seanhardison1/pcs")
The main function in pcs is query_pcs, which scrapes rider results and biographical information from the PCS website. Usage is as follows:
pcs::query_pcs("Peter Sagan", seasons = c(2020, 2021))
If no season years are specified, then query_pcs will pull all available data for the rider name(s) passed into the function as a character vector.
Rider results are returned as a list of two data frames: profiles, containing biographical information, and results, containing race results. The results data frame may contain numeric entries that pertain to DNF, DNS, DSQ, etc, and are defined as follows:
| Result flag | Code |
|---|---|
| DNF | 999 |
| DNS | 998 |
| OTL | 997 |
| DF | 996 |
| NQ | 995 |
| DSQ | 994 |
The profiles data frame contains columns for total UCI points in the categories of one_day_races, gc, tt, and sprint. Caution is warranted when analyzing rider biographical information from PCS. Never forget that these folks are more than just numbers!!