Standardize Soccer Team Names — clean_team

This function standardizes soccer team names to Fotmob defaults.

Usage

clean_team_names(team_name, keep_non_matches = TRUE)

Arguments

team_name: a character vector of team names
keep_non_matches: If TRUE (the default) an element of team_name that can't be matched to any of the internal mapping vectors will be kept as is. Otherwise it will be replaced with NA.

Value

A character vector with the length of team_name and cleaned team names if they are included in team_name_mapping, etc. Non matches may be replaced with NA (depending on the value of keep_non_matches).

Examples

# \donttest{
team_names <- c('Bournemouth', 'AFC Bournemouth', 'Bournemouth AFC')

# keep non matches
soccerplotR::clean_team_names(team_names)
#>       Bournemouth   AFC Bournemouth              <NA> 
#>     "Bournemouth"     "Bournemouth" "Bournemouth AFC" 

# drop "bad" names
soccerplotR::clean_team_names(team_names, keep_non_matches = FALSE)
#>     Bournemouth AFC Bournemouth            <NA> 
#>   "Bournemouth"   "Bournemouth"              NA 

# silence warnings
# options(soccerplotR.verbose = FALSE)
soccerplotR::clean_team_names(team_names)
#>       Bournemouth   AFC Bournemouth              <NA> 
#>     "Bournemouth"     "Bournemouth" "Bournemouth AFC" 
# }