The complete 2023 season of the NAB AFLW league is now available from the AFL API. This article describes how you can access AFLW 2023 matches and what API endpoints apply to them.

AFLW League​

The AFLW League has been assigned league Id 3, which you can see here when you call the Leagues endpoint.

You can call every Season endpoint using league Id 3, they all support AFLW. Currently only the 2023 and (upcoming) 2024 seasons are available from the API, so you will receive a 404 error if you call on the prior seasons.

AFLW Matches​

AFLW match data is accessed the same way as AFL Premiership matches; by looking up their match ids and calling the match endpoints.

As with the AFL Premiership, you can look up AFLW matches via the Season Fixture endpoint (enter league Id 3, level Id 1, season 2023) and get their match ids from there.

AFLW matches are supported by all the match endpoints, including the transactions endpoint if you are licensed to access it.

Sandbox AFLW Match Replay​

The Sandbox environment contains a replaying AFLW match, starting at the same times as the other matches. Note however, as AFLW match quarters are shorter than Premiership matches, the match status timing table doesn't completely align with the AFLW match.

Unsupported Metrics​

The following metrics do not support AFLW matches and are not returned via the match statistic endpoints.

Group	Metrics
Player Ratings	PLAYER_RATING PLAYER_RATING_BALL_USE PLAYER_RATING_BALL_USE_FIELD_KICK PLAYER_RATING_BALL_USE_HANDBALL PLAYER_RATING_BALL_USE_KICK_IN PLAYER_RATING_BALL_USE_SHOT_AT_GOAL PLAYER_RATING_BALL_WINNING PLAYER_RATING_BALL_WINNING_INTERCEPT PLAYER_RATING_BALL_WINNING_MID_CHAIN PLAYER_RATING_BALL_WINNING_STOPPAGE PLAYER_RATING_DEFENCE PLAYER_RATING_DEFENCE_PRESSURE PLAYER_RATING_DEFENCE_SPOIL PLAYER_RATING_HITOUT PLAYER_RATING_NEGATIVE PLAYER_RATING_NEGATIVE_50M_PENALTY PLAYER_RATING_NEGATIVE_DEBIT PLAYER_RATING_NEGATIVE_FREE_KICK_AGAINST
Expected Score	POINTS_EXPECTED SHOT_AT_GOAL_ACCURACY_EXPECTED
Time on Ground	TIME_ON_GROUND_DEFENCE TIME_ON_GROUND_DEFENCE_PCT TIME_ON_GROUND_FORWARD TIME_ON_GROUND_FORWARD_PCT TIME_ON_GROUND_MATCHUPS TIME_ON_GROUND_MIDFIELD TIME_ON_GROUND_MIDFIELD_PCT TIME_ON_GROUND_ON_BALL TIME_ON_GROUND_ON_BALL_PCT TIME_ON_GROUND_RUCK TIME_ON_GROUND_RUCK_PCT TIME_ON_GROUND_WING TIME_ON_GROUND_WING_PCT

GET Endpoints​

The match stat GET endpoints now provides a new filter parameter called "lastXSeconds". This parameters filters the stats so they only count transactions that occurred on or within the last 'X' seconds of the match.

If used on a live match and called periodically, the stats will go up and down based on what's happened in the last number of seconds. As it is a 'seconds' filter, enter 300 to filter the last 5 minutes, 600 for last 10.

From and To Period Seconds​

Two more parameters have been added to the endpoints alongside lastXSeconds: fromPeriodSeconds and toPeriodSeconds.

These can be used to filter statistics to a particular range of time within a quarter. They can be used independently of each other, where they will run from the start/end of the quarter, or together to focus on a mid-quarter window.

POST Endpoints​

The match stat POST endpoints also support these parameters, they can be supplied in each metic request, and in different combinations in each request. They perform the same filtering as they do for the GET Endpoints.

R Package Support

The R package's getPlayerStats and getSquadStats function also include 'lastXSeconds' parameters to be used in the same fashion as calling the API endpoints directly. It too supports using the parameters in the getPlayerStatsPOST and getSquadStatsPOST endpoints. See here for more details.