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BurntSushi / nflgame

An API to retrieve and read NFL Game Center JSON data. It can work with real-time data, which can be used for fantasy football.
http://pdoc.burntsushi.net/nflgame
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Starters and plays #353

Closed JThatcher2016 closed 5 years ago

JThatcher2016 commented 6 years ago

Hello there, more of a question than an issue, but how would we be able to know if a player is a starter or not? I mean, it could theoretically be guessed by judging position players on a team by the amount stats and it could be inferred as such. However, I'm looking for something a little bit more accurate than that.

Also, would there happen to be a way to see how many plays a player has been a part of?

Any suggestions would be very appreciated :)

ochawkeye commented 5 years ago

The data that drives nflgame will not give you the information you are looking for. In fact, the data that nflgame uses will not tell you how many snaps in a game a particular player played. The only plays that an individual player appears in to nflgame are those plays where they recorded a statistic of some sort.

JThatcher2016 commented 5 years ago

Well after looking over the project for some time I figured that was the case, but just wanted to make sure there was nothing that I overlooked. Thanks for the help though!