BurntSushi
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8 years ago Yes, you will need to do it manually by looking at the team associated with the statistic recorded by a player in any given game. The API unfortunately cannot answer every question. :-)
To be clear: the player data contains current data. If you need historical data, you need to go and look at the actual play-by-play data.
There are lots of QB injuries this week so I was interested in looking back at games where QB changes took place. Anyone have a better way of doing it than this? https://gist.github.com/andr3w321/99d64a99b303befca415 As you can see a lot of the players' teams is UNK. You could probably combine with https://gist.github.com/ochawkeye/aa0aae0ec42c4ba6ca0e somehow to account for that. The bye weeks are also unaccounted for.