library(fitzRoy)I’m pleased to announce that fitzRoy v1.7.0 has just been accepted to CRAN!
You can read about all the changes below.
New Features
Fantasy and Supercoach scores
New functions have been added to fetch AFL Fantasy (Dream Team) and Supercoach round scores from Footywire.
fetch_scores()- Wrapper function to fetch either scoring system. Specifytype = "supercoach"ortype = "dream_team"along with a year and rounds.fetch_supercoach_scores()- Fetch Supercoach scores directly.fetch_fantasy_scores()- Fetch AFL Fantasy scores directly.
fitzRoy::fetch_scores(type = "supercoach", year = 2025, rounds = 1) |> head()Fetching "supercoach" 2025 Round 1 ...# A tibble: 6 × 10
year round rank player team current_salary round_salary round_score
<dbl> <dbl> <int> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2025 1 1 "Josh Dunkley" Lions 621100 602300 173
2 2025 1 2 "Tom De Konin… Blues 524200 547100 148
3 2025 1 3 "Bailey Smith" Cats 638300 389200 147
4 2025 1 4 "Jarrod Witts" Suns 568500 581300 144
5 2025 1 5 "Dayne Zorko" Lions 555300 595100 139
6 2025 1 6 "Matt Rowell\… Suns 641400 550300 137
# ℹ 2 more variables: round_value <dbl>, injured <lgl>fitzRoy::fetch_scores(type = "dream_team", year = 2025, rounds = 1) |> head()Fetching "dream_team" 2025 Round 1 ...# A tibble: 6 × 10
year round rank player team current_salary round_salary round_score
<dbl> <dbl> <int> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2025 1 1 Jye Caldwell Bombe… 1087000 969000 146
2 2025 1 2 Tom De Koning Blues 889000 900000 132
3 2025 1 3 Josh Dunkley Lions 1128000 1102000 130
4 2025 1 4 Tristan Xerri Kanga… 1101000 1175000 129
5 2025 1 5 Max Gawn Demons 1188000 1147000 127
6 2025 1 6 Bailey Smith Cats 1220000 598000 126
# ℹ 2 more variables: round_value <dbl>, injured <lgl>Each returns player-level data for the specified rounds, including rank, salary, round score, and value.
AFL Awards
A new fetch_awards() wrapper function has been added to retrieve data for three major AFL awards from Footywire.
fetch_awards_brownlow()- Returns player and team Brownlow vote tallies for a given season.fetch_awards_allaustralian()- Returns the final All-Australian team (22 players) or the initial squad (44 players).fetch_rising_star()- Returns Rising Star nominations and round-level performance stats.
# Player vote tallies
fitzRoy::fetch_awards(2024, award = "brownlow", type = "player")# A tibble: 196 × 11
Season Player Team Votes Votes_3 Votes_2 Votes_1 Players_With_Votes
<dbl> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int>
1 2024 Patrick Cripps… Blues 163 45 12 4 1
2 2024 Nick Daicos Magp… 134 38 7 6 5
3 2024 Zak Butters Power 104 29 7 3 2
4 2024 Caleb Serong Dock… 101 28 7 3 1
5 2024 Isaac Heeney Swans 101 28 7 3 1
6 2024 Tom Green Gian… 96 27 7 1 4
7 2024 Adam Treloar Bull… 91 26 3 7 3
8 2024 Matt Rowell Suns 90 25 6 3 1
9 2024 Errol Gulden Swans 89 25 4 6 1
10 2024 Jai Newcombe Hawks 86 24 5 4 1
# ℹ 186 more rows
# ℹ 3 more variables: Games_Polled <int>, Polled <chr>, V_G <chr># Team vote summary
fitzRoy::fetch_awards(2024, award = "brownlow", type = "team")# A tibble: 18 × 9
Season Team Votes Votes_3 Votes_2 Votes_1 Players_With_Votes Games_Polled
<dbl> <chr> <dbl> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
1 2024 Sydney 362 103 19 15 16 12
2 2024 Western… 318 91 16 13 17 13
3 2024 Carlton 306 87 15 15 12 12
4 2024 Fremant… 304 87 14 15 15 12
5 2024 GWS 299 85 15 14 12 14
6 2024 Port Ad… 297 84 17 11 11 9
7 2024 Brisbane 287 82 14 13 14 11
8 2024 Hawthorn 287 82 13 15 13 14
9 2024 Colling… 239 68 12 11 10 9
10 2024 Geelong 237 68 12 9 14 13
11 2024 Essendon 236 67 10 15 7 12
12 2024 Melbour… 235 67 10 14 9 12
13 2024 Gold Co… 223 64 10 11 12 9
14 2024 St Kilda 224 64 11 10 11 13
15 2024 Adelaide 181 52 9 7 11 9
16 2024 North M… 146 42 6 8 8 8
17 2024 West Co… 102 30 3 6 9 6
18 2024 Richmond 64 19 1 5 6 8
# ℹ 1 more variable: V_G <chr>fitzRoy::fetch_awards(2023, award = "allaustralian", type = "team")# A tibble: 22 × 4
Season Position Player Team
<dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 2023 FB J Sicily HAW
2 2023 FB C Wilkie STK
3 2023 FB T Stewart GEEL
4 2023 HB J Sinclair STK
5 2023 HB D Moore COLL
6 2023 HB D Houston PORT
7 2023 C E Gulden SYD
8 2023 C M Bontempelli WB
9 2023 C J Daicos COLL
10 2023 HF C Rozee PORT
# ℹ 12 more rowsfitzRoy::fetch_awards(2023, award = "allaustralian", type = "squad")# A tibble: 21 × 3
Season Team Player
<dbl> <chr> <chr>
1 2023 Brisbane Harris Andrews
2 2023 Brisbane Joe Daniher
3 2023 Brisbane Lachie Neale
4 2023 Carlton Patrick Cripps
5 2023 Carlton Jacob Weitering
6 2023 Collingwood Jordan De Goey
7 2023 Collingwood Isaac Quaynor
8 2023 Essendon Kyle Langford
9 2023 Essendon Mason Redman
10 2023 Fremantle Luke Jackson
# ℹ 11 more rows# All nominations for the season
fitzRoy::fetch_awards(2024, award = "risingstar", type = "nominations")# A tibble: 25 × 22
Season Round Player Team Opponent Kicks Handballs Disposals Marks Goals
<dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2024 0 M Roberts Swans Demons 16 3 19 8 0
2 2024 1 O Dempsey Cats Saints 13 2 15 7 3
3 2024 2 G Wardlaw Kang… Dockers 10 13 23 6 1
4 2024 3 H Gallagher Bull… Eagles 12 4 16 7 2
5 2024 4 S Darcy Bull… Cats 10 2 12 3 3
6 2024 5 H Reid Eagl… Tigers 11 16 27 3 1
7 2024 6 D Wilson Sain… Bulldogs 8 7 15 4 1
8 2024 7 J Rogers Suns Eagles 10 12 22 1 1
9 2024 8 C Windsor Demo… Cats 11 7 18 6 1
10 2024 9 C McKercher Kang… Suns 21 9 30 2 0
# ℹ 15 more rows
# ℹ 12 more variables: Behinds <dbl>, Tackles <dbl>, Hitouts <dbl>,
# Goal_Assists <dbl>, Inside_50s <dbl>, Clearances <dbl>, Clangers <dbl>,
# Rebound_50s <dbl>, Frees_For <dbl>, Frees_Against <dbl>, Supercoach <dbl>,
# Fantasy <dbl># Stats for a specific round's nominees
fitzRoy::fetch_awards(2024, award = "risingstar", round_number = 5, type = "stats")# A tibble: 34 × 24
Season Round Player Nomination Team Opponent Result Kicks Handballs
<dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2024 5 H Reid "R5" Eagles Tigers Win 1… 11 16
2 2024 5 D Wilson "R6" Saints Giants Loss … 16 3
3 2024 5 L Nankervis "R13" Crows Blues Win 1… 9 9
4 2024 5 H Thomas "R14" Giants Saints Win 8… 10 7
5 2024 5 B Drury "" Kangaroos Cats Loss … 13 4
6 2024 5 G Wardlaw "R2" Kangaroos Cats Loss … 12 4
7 2024 5 B Howes "" Demons Lions Loss … 8 7
8 2024 5 W Graham "R16" Suns Hawks Win 1… 8 6
9 2024 5 S Darcy "R4" Bulldogs Bombers Loss … 9 4
10 2024 5 O Dempsey "R1" Cats Kangaro… Win 1… 8 5
# ℹ 24 more rows
# ℹ 15 more variables: Disposals <dbl>, Marks <dbl>, Goals <dbl>,
# Behinds <dbl>, Tackles <dbl>, Hitouts <dbl>, Goal_Assists <dbl>,
# Inside_50s <dbl>, Clearances <dbl>, Clangers <dbl>, Rebound_50s <dbl>,
# Frees_For <dbl>, Frees_Against <dbl>, Fantasy <dbl>, Supercoach <dbl>Out-of-contract players
fetch_outofcontract() returns a list of players whose contracts expire at the end of a given year — useful for team list analysis and end-of-season trade period research. Data is available from 2025 onwards.
fitzRoy::fetch_outofcontract(year = 2026)# A tibble: 307 × 4
Player Years_Service Status Club
<chr> <chr> <chr> <chr>
1 Billy Dowling 4 Non-Free Agent Adelaide
2 Brayden Cook 6 Non-Free Agent Adelaide
3 Charlie Edwards 3 Non-Free Agent Adelaide
4 Chayce Jones 8 Restricted Free Agent Adelaide
5 Finnbar Maley 1 Non-Free Agent Adelaide
6 James Borlase 6 Unrestricted Free Agent Adelaide
7 Jordon Butts 8 Restricted Free Agent Adelaide
8 Lachlan Sholl 8 Restricted Free Agent Adelaide
9 Luke Pedlar 6 Non-Free Agent Adelaide
10 Mitchell Hinge 6 Unrestricted Free Agent Adelaide
# ℹ 297 more rowsTeam statistics
A new fetch_team_stats() wrapper has been added for retrieving team-level aggregate statistics. It supports three sources: AFL Tables, Footywire, and VFL Stats.
# Team totals from AFL Tables
fitzRoy::fetch_team_stats(2024, summary_type = "totals", source = "afltables")ℹ Downloading team stats from AFLTables for 2024✔ Downloading team stats from AFLTables for 2024 [177ms]# A tibble: 18 × 65
season Team KI_for KI_against MK_for MK_against HB_for HB_against DI_for
<dbl> <chr> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
1 2024 Adelaide 4899 4907 2023 1945 3401 3166 8300
2 2024 Brisbane… 6281 5381 2983 2237 3476 3820 9757
3 2024 Carlton 5210 4887 2193 2081 3410 3376 8620
4 2024 Collingw… 4684 5069 1867 2250 3199 3423 7883
5 2024 Essendon 5091 4904 2274 2139 3657 3291 8748
6 2024 Fremantle 4747 4822 2141 2203 3698 3155 8445
7 2024 Geelong 5397 5490 2201 2299 3363 3593 8760
8 2024 Gold Coa… 4642 4965 1949 2122 3345 3337 7987
9 2024 Greater … 5222 5086 2207 2016 4091 3534 9313
10 2024 Hawthorn 5258 5163 2276 2311 3741 3388 8999
11 2024 Melbourne 4894 5108 2167 2303 3059 3343 7953
12 2024 North Me… 4773 4806 2034 2102 3361 3383 8134
13 2024 Port Ade… 5687 5295 2464 2140 3271 3578 8958
14 2024 Richmond 4593 5306 1962 2526 3186 3440 7779
15 2024 St Kilda 5209 5067 2406 2303 3172 3231 8381
16 2024 Sydney 5720 5537 2484 2443 3537 3637 9257
17 2024 West Coa… 4391 5019 1939 2275 2873 3462 7264
18 2024 Western … 5204 5090 2340 2215 3698 3381 8902
# ℹ 56 more variables: DI_against <int>, GL_for <int>, GL_against <int>,
# BH_for <int>, BH_against <int>, HO_for <int>, HO_against <int>,
# TK_for <int>, TK_against <int>, RB_for <int>, RB_against <int>,
# IF_for <int>, IF_against <int>, CL_for <int>, CL_against <int>,
# CG_for <int>, CG_against <int>, FF_for <int>, FF_against <int>,
# BR_for <int>, BR_against <int>, CP_for <int>, CP_against <int>,
# UP_for <int>, UP_against <int>, CM_for <int>, CM_against <int>, …# Per-game averages from Footywire
fitzRoy::fetch_team_stats(2024, summary_type = "averages", source = "footywire")ℹ Fetching averages team stats from Footywire for 2024✔ Fetching averages team stats from Footywire for 2024 [1.8s]# A tibble: 18 × 22
season summary type Team Games K HB D M G GA I50
<dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
1 2024 averages team Bombers 23 221. 159. 380. 98.9 12 9 55.6
2 2024 averages team Giants 25 209. 164. 372. 88.3 13.2 9.5 50.6
3 2024 averages team Bulldo… 24 217. 154. 371. 97.5 13.4 8.8 56.5
4 2024 averages team Dockers 23 206. 161. 367. 93 12.4 9.3 51
5 2024 averages team Saints 23 226. 138. 364. 105. 11 8 49
6 2024 averages team Lions 27 233. 129. 361. 110. 13.5 9.2 56.5
7 2024 averages team Crows 23 213 148. 361. 88 12.1 8.8 49.2
8 2024 averages team Hawks 25 210. 150. 360 91 13.2 9.4 53.9
9 2024 averages team Blues 24 217. 142. 359. 91.4 13.6 9.3 51.7
10 2024 averages team Swans 26 220 136 356 95.5 14 10.1 53.4
11 2024 averages team Kangar… 23 208. 146. 354. 88.4 10.6 7.5 45.3
12 2024 averages team Cats 25 216. 134. 350. 88 14.1 9.8 54.6
13 2024 averages team Suns 23 202. 145. 347. 84.7 12.2 8.5 56
14 2024 averages team Demons 23 213. 133. 346. 94.3 11.3 8.3 49
15 2024 averages team Power 26 219. 126. 344. 94.8 11.9 8.7 54.5
16 2024 averages team Magpies 23 204. 139. 343. 81.2 12.5 8.9 49.7
17 2024 averages team Tigers 23 200. 138. 338. 85.3 9.2 6.7 47.9
18 2024 averages team Eagles 23 191. 125. 316. 84.3 10 6.8 46
# ℹ 10 more variables: BH <dbl>, T <dbl>, HO <dbl>, FF <dbl>, FA <dbl>,
# CL <dbl>, CG <dbl>, R50 <dbl>, AF <dbl>, SC <dbl># VFL Men's team stats
fitzRoy::fetch_team_stats(2024, source = "vflstats", comp = "VFLM")ℹ Fetching team stats from VFLM 2024...✔ Fetching team stats from VFLM 2024... [11.3s]# A tibble: 21 × 16
season summary type comp Team Games Kicks Handballs Disposals Marks
<dbl> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <int> <int> <int> <int> <int>
1 2024 totals team VFLM Box Hill Ha… 431 4091 2557 6648 1921
2 2024 totals team VFLM Brisbane Li… 478 4802 2579 7381 2198
3 2024 totals team VFLM Carlton 413 3575 2504 6079 1487
4 2024 totals team VFLM Casey Demons 412 3558 2213 5771 1360
5 2024 totals team VFLM Coburg Lions 413 3589 2949 6538 1523
6 2024 totals team VFLM Collingwood… 405 3486 2363 5849 1465
7 2024 totals team VFLM Essendon VFL 409 3744 2671 6415 1572
8 2024 totals team VFLM Footscray B… 460 4136 3094 7230 1739
9 2024 totals team VFLM Frankston D… 460 3951 2329 6280 1513
10 2024 totals team VFLM GWS Giants 401 3585 2266 5851 1504
# ℹ 11 more rows
# ℹ 6 more variables: Tackles <int>, Hitouts <int>, Fantasy <int>, Goals <int>,
# Behinds <int>, Score <int>Bug Fixes
- Fixed duplicates for most recent game in
fetch_player_stats_afltables()(#250) - Fixed issues for
fetch_player_detailswhen indigenous names are used (#261, #262) - Updated
replace_teams()to handle the new AFL.com.au spelling of Wallitj Marawar (#259) - Fixed issue with
fetch_player_footywire_statsnot working with the new season
Enjoy!