[BUG] punter_player_id and punter_player_name are NULL when punt_blocked = 1

[andrewtek]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues

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• [X] I have installed the latest development version of the package.

If this is a data issue, have you tried clearing your nflverse cache?

I am not using an nflverse R package (nflreadr, nflfastR) to access this data.

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Describe the bug

When checking data for 2023, punter_player_id and punter_player_name are null when punt_blocked = 1.

It appears that these pieces of information are available in the raw stat data, but they are stored on statId 2.

Reprex

The following plays have this issue:

game_id    play_id
2023_05_BAL_PIT    3146
2023_08_LA_DAL    1014
2023_13_IND_TEN    3369
2023_15_PIT_IND    902
2023_16_WAS_NYJ    356
2023_18_DAL_WAS    2671

Expected Behavior

I would expect punter_player_id and punter_player_name to contain the id and name of the punting player. These values appear to exist in the raw play stats on statId 2.

nflverse_sitrep

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[mrcaseb]

Confirmed. We don't write player information for stat ID == 2.

I also found some time to cross check other stat IDs. The following stat IDs at least occasionally provide player information while we don't write any of them.

• [x] 2 (fixed in #463)
• [x] 57 (records yardage, player info in other stat ID)
• [x] 61 (records yardage, player info in other stat ID)
• [ ] 63 (63 is used for players that recover and return BLOCKED punts/fgs). Same for 64 but play ends in TD. This is pretty bad because we usually write punt or kickoff returner but we don't know the playtype at this stage. But we could at least write return yards and team
• [x] 402 (recorded in combination with stat ID 120 where we write player info)
• [ ] 403 (DEF player recovers the ball in a 2pt/xp attempt)
• [ ] 404 (DEF player recovers the ball in a 2pt/xp attempt AND scores)

This is just the list of IDs where we don't write player info while we could. I have not yet checked whether this is reasonable or not.