We’ve updated nhlscrapr, our package that does what it’s in the name, to version 1.8. What this does is reprocess several of the html files from nhl.com into R readable tables. We do this with the *strong* caveat that we’re using this for academic purposes and that anyone using the package should be aware of their own actions when doing so.

This is actually a minor upgrade only with two purposes:

• Games from the 2014-2015 season can now be retrieved, and by specifying ‘season=”20142015″‘ you can download only that season, or selected seasons, without more complex operation.
• To respect NHL server capacity, we instituted a wait of 20 seconds between downloading individual games.

For now, we took out many of the other data correction aspects — adjusted distance and zone-location correction — that will be enhanced when version 2.0 is released which are still in progress.