WHL (sportsdataverse.whl)

Data sources

Source	APIs / hosts	Functions	Auth
HockeyTech / LeagueStat	lscluster.hockeytech.com	11	per-league public key (SDV__API_KEY)
Additional functions	hand-written wrappers & helpers	13	—

HockeyTech / LeagueStat

Reference	Functions
Hand-written wrappers	11

Tools and helpers

Dates and seasons

• most_recent_whl_season
• whl_season_id

Examples

Worked examples — executed notebooks rendered as pages (refreshed weekly against the live APIs):

• Quickstart
• Junior & minor hockey tutorial

Python ↔ R parity

Each sportsdataverse function and its equivalent in the sister R package, fastRhockey. Same-named where possible; the R column links the package's pkgdown reference.

sportsdataverse.whl (Python)	fastRhockey (R)
most_recent_whl_season	most_recent_whl_season
whl_game_corsi	whl_game_corsi
whl_game_shifts	whl_game_shifts
whl_game_summary	whl_game_summary
whl_leaders	whl_leaders
whl_pbp	whl_pbp
whl_player_stats	whl_player_stats
whl_player_toi	whl_player_toi
whl_schedule	whl_schedule
whl_season_id	whl_season_id
whl_standings	whl_standings
whl_team_roster	whl_team_roster
whl_teams	whl_teams