Rebuilt on the ggpath foundation (the nflplotR/nbaplotR pattern). cfbplotR now resolves a CFB identifier to an image path and delegates all rendering — caching, aspect ratio, alpha, colorization — to ggpath.
Dropped the magick, RCurl, base64enc, and purrr dependencies; added ggpath (>= 1.1.0). Raised the requirements to R (>= 4.1.0) and ggplot2 (>= 4.0.0) (matching ggpath’s S7 theme elements).
Breaking (minor):geom_mean_lines() / geom_median_lines() are now re-exported from ggpath and use ggpath’s aesthetics x0 / y0 (a vertical line at x0, a horizontal line at y0) instead of cfbplotR’s former v_var / h_var. Update calls accordingly, e.g. geom_median_lines(aes(x0 = pass_epa, y0 = rush_epa)).
Added repository community-health files (CLAUDE.md, Copilot instructions, issue/PR templates, CONTRIBUTING, Code of Conduct), normalized badges, a standard SportsDataverse README, a bibentry() citation, and a richer pkgdown reference.
Added the geom_cfb_headshots() geom that plots headshots for valid ESPN player IDs. (v0.0.9009)
Added cleaning function clean_school_names() which attempts to correct common name issues to names in valid_team_names(). The plotting functions call this internally to automatically attempt to fix errors.
Added experimental function add_athlete_id_col() that adds a column to a data frame called athlete_id from the rosters data from the cfbfastR-data repo based on a player name. This ID can be used with headshot plotting functions
