vasqued2
commented
1 year ago I got lazy.
The 8 to “quarterfinals” is a hack that works most of the time. But not all of the time.
The 8 represents that there are 8 competitions left in the French open to be played. In a normal tournament, if there were 8 competitions left, that would mean this one is the quarterfinals.
But the French open is not a normal tournament. It is actually multiple tournaments. Singles. Doubles. Mixed. Men’s. Women’s. But the API returns all of the competitions in a single call. So now it is returning 8 competitions remaining. Which there are. But they are a combo of all of the above. So the card incorrectly interprets 8 as quarterfinals.
Opens are the worst offenders but others sometimes have multiple competition types too. I noticed it at the Australian last year but was too lazy to fix it then.
I have 3 options:
- take it off the card because it is wrong sometimes
- Leave it on even though it is wrong sometimes
- Try to fix it
I’ll try to fix it by filtering out other events but no guarantees.
I personally thought was worth it since it worked for most events and I liked the context it provided. If you think it causes too much confusion, lmk and I’ll consider turning it off for everything.
loovanloon
When attribute "odds" = 8 in a tennis entity, it is translated to "quarterfinals" on the card. This sounds right and logical: in quarterfinals 1 out of 8 has a chance to win the tennis tournament. However, in real life the actual match is the "semi-final" (1 out of 4).
So either the ESPN API is providing the wrong data, or the value of "odds" should be interpreted differently.
See the card of the semi final of French Open Roland Garros, match of Friday 9th of June (2023-06-09)
And the raw data of the entity: