Type
Improvement
Status
Open
Reported By
Mahesh Vishwanath
Component
API
Votes
Created
19/Mar/16 5:15 PM EDT
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Description
It would be great if there were a way to get a player's stats given a date. Right now, the only way I can see to get a player's data on a date would be to find the events on the date, loop through each event and get the boxscore, and loop through the players to see if I could find the same player. This requires a lot of API calls to as I would need to potentially get every single boxscore on a given date. Is this possible?
Comments
1. Erik Berg 20/Mar/2016 at 1:01 AM EDT
Of course, it's possible. The reason why there are few endpoints that return individual player stats is because I have been looking for assistance to create and maintain a non-proprietary, completely open, free database of professional athletes that includes basic information (e.g., names, birthplace, birthdate) . Every sports data service has their own strategy for keeping player IDs and I think it is a serious duplication of efforts. The other advantages are fewer typographical errors, player disambiguation, and the ability to cross reference between services if we could get others to take part.