Rugby Functions

The usportspy package provides functions to retrieve Rugby-related data, including game schedules. Currently, only Women's Rugby data is available.

Functions

rugby_get_schedule

Fetches the Rugby schedule based on gender.

Parameters:

• gender (str): Must be "m" or "w". Note that only Women's data is currently available.

Returns:

• pd.DataFrame: A DataFrame containing the Rugby schedule. The columns of the returned DataFrame are: date, away, away_score, home, home_score, status, notes, month, conference, division, exhibition, postseason, and season.

Example:

from usportspy import rugby_get_schedule

# Get the schedule for female Rugby
schedule_female = rugby_get_schedule("w")
print(schedule_female.head())

Expected output:

      date  away  away_score                            home  home_score        status  ...        month conference  division  exhibition  postseason   season
0  Wed. 21  StFX         NaN                            Army         NaN   5:00 PM EDT  ...  August 2024          0         0           1           0  2024-25
1  Thu. 22  StFX         NaN  American International College         NaN   3:00 PM EDT  ...  August 2024          0         0           1           0  2024-25
2  Fri. 23  StFX         NaN                      Quinnipiac         NaN   9:00 AM EDT  ...  August 2024          0         0           1           0  2024-25
3  Fri. 23  StFX         NaN                    Sacred Heart         NaN  11:00 AM EDT  ...  August 2024          0         0           1           0  2024-25
4  Sat. 24  StFX         NaN                           Brown         NaN  11:00 AM EDT  ...  August 2024          0         0           1           0  2024-25

[5 rows x 13 columns]