NCAA.com Stats Scraper

Scrape official NCAA.com statistical leaderboards, ranking polls, and conference standings for 14 college sports — men's and women's basketball, football, baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, ice hockey, and field hockey — across Division I, II, and III (FBS/FCS for football; men's volleyball rankings use the pooled "National Collegiate" division instead). No login, no cookies, no paid proxy required.

What this actor does

• Team leaderboards — every team-level statistical category NCAA.com tracks (Scoring Offense, Rebound Margin, Turnover Margin, Field Goal Percentage, and dozens more, sport-specific)
• Individual (player) leaderboards — the same categories at player level (Points Per Game, Passing Yards Per Game, Batting Average, etc.), including class year, height, and position where NCAA.com publishes them
• National ranking polls — AP Top 25, Coaches Polls, NET Rankings, RPI, committee rankings, and sport-specific polls (United Soccer Coaches, D1Baseball.com Top 25, AVCA Rankings, and more)
• Conference standings — conference and overall win-loss records, PCT, streak, and (for football) points for/against and home/away splits, grouped by conference. Currently published live by NCAA.com only for Division I men's and women's basketball and FBS/FCS football; other sport/division combinations return a clear status message instead of data
• Historical seasons — archive depth varies by sport (men's basketball back to 2017; most other sports only have 1-4 prior seasons on NCAA.com). An unsupported season/sport combination returns a clear status message instead of data.
• Automatic pagination up to your requested maxItems
• Empty/unavailable fields are omitted from every record — no null, no placeholders

Output fields

Team statistics (mode: teamStats)

Field	Description
rank	Position in the leaderboard
tiedRank	true only when this row shares its rank with the row above it (NCAA.com marks tied rows with - instead of repeating the number)
team	School name
teamUrl	Link to the school's NCAA.com page
teamLogoUrl	School logo image
gamesPlayed	Games played this season
statCategory / statCategoryId	The requested category and its NCAA.com id
statValue / statLabel	The category's headline value and its column label (e.g. 91.2 / PPG)
stats	Every other numeric column NCAA.com shows for this category (varies by category)
sport / sportSlug / division / season	Query context
page	Leaderboard page this row came from
sourceUrl	The exact NCAA.com page scraped

Individual statistics (mode: individualStats)

Same as team statistics, plus:

Field	Description
playerName	Player's name
class	Class year (Fr., So., Jr., Sr.) — when NCAA.com publishes it
height	Player height — when NCAA.com publishes it
position	Playing position — when NCAA.com publishes it

Rankings (mode: rankings)

Field	Description
rank	Poll rank
tiedRank	true only when this row shares its rank with the row above it
school	School name
firstPlaceVotes	First-place votes received (media/coaches polls only)
record / wins / losses / ties	Season record, parsed into components
points	Poll points total (when the poll publishes one)
previousRank	Previous week's rank (when published)
pollStats	Every other column the poll table shows (conference, quadrant records, road/home/neutral splits, etc. — varies by poll)
pollSlug / pollName	The requested poll
sport / sportSlug / division	Query context
sourceUrl	The exact NCAA.com rankings page scraped

Conference standings (mode: standings)

Field	Description
conference	Conference name (e.g. ACC, Big Ten)
team	School name
teamLogoUrl	School logo image
conferenceWins / conferenceLosses / conferencePct	Record within conference play
overallWins / overallLosses / overallPct	Season-wide record
streak	Current win/loss streak (e.g. Won 3)
standingsStats	Sport-specific extra columns NCAA.com publishes (e.g. football's points for/against and home/away splits)
sport / sportSlug / division	Query context
sourceUrl	The exact NCAA.com standings page scraped

Every record also includes recordType and scrapedAt (UTC timestamp).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	teamStats	teamStats / individualStats / rankings / standings
sport	select	basketball-men	One of 14 supported NCAA sports
division	select	d1	d1 / d2 / d3 / fbs / fcs / nc (football uses FBS/FCS; men's volleyball rankings use nc — National Collegiate)
statCategory	select	Scoring Offense	Statistical category (mode=teamStats/individualStats) — options depend on sport
season	select	current	Season/year; archive depth varies by sport (men's basketball back to 2017, most others fewer seasons)
pollSlug	select	associated-press	Which ranking poll to scrape (mode=rankings) — options depend on sport
maxItems	integer	25	Hard cap on records emitted (1–500)

Supported sports and divisions

Sport	sport value	Divisions
Men's Basketball	basketball-men	d1, d2, d3
Women's Basketball	basketball-women	d1, d2, d3
Football	football	fbs, fcs, d2, d3
Baseball	baseball	d1, d2, d3
Softball	softball	d1, d2, d3
Men's Soccer	soccer-men	d1, d2, d3
Women's Soccer	soccer-women	d1, d2, d3
Men's Volleyball	volleyball-men	d1, d3
Women's Volleyball	volleyball-women	d1, d2, d3
Men's Lacrosse	lacrosse-men	d1, d2, d3
Women's Lacrosse	lacrosse-women	d1, d2, d3
Men's Ice Hockey	icehockey-men	d1, d3
Women's Ice Hockey	icehockey-women	d1, d3
Field Hockey	fieldhockey	d1, d2, d3

If you request a sport/division combination NCAA.com doesn't publish (e.g. Division II men's volleyball), or a statCategory/pollSlug that doesn't exist for the chosen sport, the run finishes with a clear status message listing the valid options for that sport instead of failing silently.

Example: team scoring leaders

{
  "mode": "teamStats",
  "sport": "basketball-men",
  "division": "d1",
  "statCategory": "Scoring Offense",
  "season": "current",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: individual passing leaders (FBS football)

{
  "mode": "individualStats",
  "sport": "football",
  "division": "fbs",
  "statCategory": "Passing Yards Per Game",
  "season": "current",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example: AP Top 25

{
  "mode": "rankings",
  "sport": "basketball-men",
  "division": "d1",
  "pollSlug": "associated-press"
}

Example: conference standings

{
  "mode": "standings",
  "sport": "basketball-men",
  "division": "d1"
}

Example: historical season archive

{
  "mode": "teamStats",
  "sport": "baseball",
  "division": "d1",
  "statCategory": "Batting Average",
  "season": "2023",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Use cases

• Sports media & content sites — auto-publish weekly leaderboard and poll roundups
• Fantasy sports & betting research — track team and player statistical trends
• Recruiting & scouting — surface individual leaderboards by position/category
• Sports analytics — build historical statistical datasets across seasons
• Fan dashboards — power a live conference/team stat tracker
• Academic research — study competitive trends across NCAA divisions

FAQ

Do I need an NCAA.com account, cookies, or API key? No. This actor reads publicly published pages only.

Why does stats (or pollStats) vary between records? NCAA.com shows a different set of columns for every statistical category and every poll (e.g. scoring stats show PTS/PPG; NET Rankings show conference and quadrant records). The actor captures every column the source page publishes for the requested category/poll — nothing is padded with placeholder values.

What does statValue/statLabel mean? NCAA.com's rightmost column is the category's headline number (e.g. 91.2 under PPG for Scoring Offense). statValue/statLabel surface that number directly; stats contains the full column set for anyone who wants every number NCAA.com published.

How far back does season go? Most sports have archives back to 2017; current always follows whichever season NCAA.com is actively displaying. Archive coverage is set by NCAA.com itself and varies by sport/category/year — a handful of older combinations for less-prominent sports aren't published in the archive. When that happens the run finishes cleanly with 0 records and a status message rather than an error; just try an adjacent season.

Why do two rows share the same rank? NCAA.com itself displays ties this way — a tied row's rank cell shows - instead of repeating the number, so the actor carries the previous row's rank forward and flags the row with tiedRank: true rather than dropping it (an earlier version silently lost these rows).

Are teamUrl and teamLogoUrl reliable? Yes — both are direct NCAA.com URLs (the school's own page and its official logo asset) and are checked to resolve without any cookies or referer header.

Can I scrape multiple categories or polls in one run? Run the actor once per statCategory/pollSlug combination — this keeps each run's output focused on one leaderboard or poll, matching how NCAA.com itself organizes the data.

Why is mode: standings only available for a few sports? NCAA.com itself only publishes a conference-standings widget for Division I men's/women's basketball and FBS/FCS football — it doesn't build the page for other sports/divisions at all (confirmed against the live site). Requesting any other combination returns a clear status message instead of an empty result.

Why did my run finish with 0 items and a status message? Either the sport/division pairing isn't offered by NCAA.com (e.g. Division II men's volleyball), or the statCategory/pollSlug you chose doesn't exist for that sport. The status message lists every valid option for the sport you selected.

Is this affiliated with NCAA.com? No, this is a third-party actor using NCAA.com's public statistics, rankings, and standings pages. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NCAA.