NFL Rosters Not Finding Any Players

[joeyagreco]

Describe the bug Upon instantiating a roster for a given team, the players field will always be an empty list (or dict).

To Reproduce Sample code:

import sportsipy.nfl.roster as roster

if __name__ == '__main__':
    r = roster.Roster("GNB", year=2010, slim=True)
    print(r.players)

Expected behavior Should print a list of Player objects from the 2010 Green Bay Packers.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows 10
• Sportsipy Version: 0.6.0

[cbdm]

Looks like they saw this issue a little back but the fix didn't make it to the pip version yet: https://github.com/roclark/sportsipy/commit/fd33a4f4048d3c04fceb0157ffd9946c9ab8c77c.
If you're using a virtual environment, you can just modify that same file in your installed version (VENV_PATH/lib/pythonXX/site-packages/sportsipy/nfl/roster.py), or you can follow the instructions on the readme to install from source.

However, I still had a problem even with their solution.
If not using the _slim=True option, player names were not correctly populated.

So when I was debugging this problem with something like:

from sportsipy.nfl.teams import Teams as NFL_Teams
teams = NFL_Teams()
for team in teams:
    print(team.roster.__dict__)

My output was something like this:

{'_team': 'DAL', '_slim': False, '_coach': 'Mike McCarthy', '_players': [None (AnaeBr00), None (AngeBr00), None (ArmsDo00), None (BashTa00), None (BernFr01), None (BiadTy00), None (BohaQu00), None (BrowAn02), None (BrowKy00), None (BrowNo00), None (BuntIa00), None (BurtDe00), None (CanaMa00), None (ClemCo00), None (CollLa01), None (CoopAm00), None (CoxxJa00), None (CoylTy00), None (DiggTr00), None (ElliEz00), None (FaolAu00), None (FarnMa00), None (FehoSi00), None (GallNe00), None (GallMi00), None (GiffLu00), None (GolsCh00), None (GoodC.00), None (GregRa00), None (HajrLi00), None (HamiJu00), None (HardJa01), None (HillTr00), None (HookMa00), None (JarwBl00), None (JoseKe02), None (KamaAz01), None (KazeDa00), None (KearJa00), None (KnigBr01), None (LambCe00), None (LawrDe00), None (LewiJo01), None (MartZa00), None (McGoCo01), None (McKeSe01), None (McQuJa00), None (MukuIs00), None (NealKe01), None (NsekTy00), None (OdigOs00), None (ParsMi00), None (PollTo00), None (PresDa01), None (RalsNi00), None (RushCo00), None (SchuDa00), None (SmitIt00), None (SmitJa05), None (SmitTy00), None (SpriJe00), None (SteeTe01), None (ThomDa05), None (TurnMa00), None (UrbaBr00), None (VandLe00), None (WatkCa00), None (WillCo00), None (WilsCe01), None (WilsDo01), None (WrigNa00), None (ZuerGr00)]}

You can see that the player_ids are correct but all their names are missing (i.,e., None); but if you dig into a player object it has all stats populated*.
So I added another change around those lines to populate the names also; I added player_instance._name = self._get_name(player) after the Player instance is created in line 1876 of the same file.
This is obviously not the best solution, _name was supposed to be set in _parse_player_information, but it's a quick and dirty fix to get us unstuck :)

* '_most_recent_season' wasn't set correctly in the one I checked:

>>> player
None (AdamMi21)
>>> player.__dict__
{'_most_recent_season': '2011', ..., '_player_id': 'AdamMi21', '_season': ['2004', '2005', '2006', '2007', '2008', '2009', '2010', '2011', '2012', '2013', '2014', '2015', '2016', '2017', '2018', '2019', 'Career'], ...}