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[FEATURE REQ] Archive data more frequently during season #50

Closed dschuler36 closed 2 months ago

dschuler36 commented 2 months ago

Is there an existing issue for this?

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Getting the latest depth_chart data Thursday is a little late when trying to create stat predictions for the upcoming week. Most fantasy players are adjusting lineups starting Tuesday morning so it'd be great if datasets like depth_chart could be refreshed daily during the season so that the latest data is always available. I'm happy to help PR this if there's interest.

Describe the solution you'd like

Datasets like depth_chart are refreshed daily during the NFL season.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

I'm building stat predictions using this data and depth_chart data is a key piece of my prediction, so I don't want to release any predictions until that is refreshed for the week. This means I won't be able to get predictions out til Thursday instead of Tuesday.

Thanks so much for this project, by the way. It's really great to have such a high quality dataset available.

tanho63 commented 2 months ago

https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-rosters/blob/3637c34ed6dce797be59caae16271634161ab3a3/.github/workflows/update_depth_charts.yaml#L3

Depth charts are updated daily at 7:00 UTC

dschuler36 commented 2 months ago

oh my bad! I was going off the cron in the github actions yaml. Thanks!

tanho63 commented 2 months ago

Ah, in this repo? We archive all data in the github releases once a week in-season. Jobs generally have their own schedule.

dschuler36 commented 2 months ago

yeah, sorry. was referring to this: https://github.com/nflverse/nflverse-data/blob/main/.github/workflows/run_archive.yaml#L4

good to know these will be daily though! Do you have any idea when the first 2024 depth chart will be published?

john-b-edwards commented 2 months ago

@dschuler36 We pull depth charts from the NFL API. Rather frustratingly, it typically takes until after week one games for these depth charts to populate in the API--then moving forward, each week's depth charts are available ahead of that week's games. So, the typical timeline is:

Week 1 games are played

Week 1 and 2 depth charts become available in the API

Week 2 games are played

I understand that this isn't ideal, unfortunately, we don't produce the depth charts ourselves, and we're at the mercy of the NFL API on this one.

dschuler36 commented 2 months ago

thanks for the details, John! No worries, I can compile manually for now until they're available. Thanks for all the help