How to store each player as Player Object in recent_activity() about espn-api

[cwendt94]

Hmm that’s a great question. That wouldn’t be a bad idea but holding all players could take up a lot of space.

So if you are looking for players that were picked up we know they belong to a team. We might be able to use the same endpoint as free_agents function but filter on owned players instead of wavier/free agents.

[rysull23]

agreed that it would get heavy.... good idea on the free_agent approach. I can toy with it. But for dropped players...I guess you're saying they would *not* belong to a team. Does this mean we can't retrieve their week-over-week scores? The aggregation of all this player data definitely becomes a bit convoluted, eh?

[cwendt94]

That’s a good point, I didn’t even think about dropped players. It definitely adds some more complexity. I wonder if ESPN has a endpoint where you could just call for one player’s data or something like that

[joshbis]

You could get week-by-week box_scores, which would give you points that a player earned while on a team, but it would miss points (not) accrued in free-agency.

[rysull23]

Looks like you can use the free_agent request and slightly change the filters. The Player object that comes back shows the last 2 week's scores. It also shows total season points. However, it's a bit strange to make out.

See below example for Christian McCaffery

params = {
            'scoringPeriodId': 5,
            'view': 'kona_player_info',
            
        }
filters = {"players":{"filterIds":{"value":[3117251]},"sortPercOwned":{"sortPriority":2,"sortAsc":False},"filterStatsForTopScoringPeriodIds":{"value":2,"additionalValue":["002019","102019","002018","1120195","022019"]}}}
headers = {'x-fantasy-filter': json.dumps(filters)}

r = requests.get(ENDPOINT, params=params, cookies=cookies, headers=headers)

• notice the filter is 'filterIds' for the player's ID
• Oh, as I'm typing this, I see 'filterStatsForTopScoringPeriods' is set to 2...wonder what happens if I up it? And the 'additional values' might be the answer to my question below..

• Season Total = 115
• Last week = 34.9
• 2 weeks ago = 30.8
• ...What is all that other stuff though? and the why the 2018 data?

Looks like...

• 002019 = '00' plus year. The 00 = Season Total
• 20195 = Year + "5" = Season Average points per week

[cwendt94]

Nice, I was thinking you could probably pass in just a player id and players specific information. For the 2018 stats ESPN likes to show the previous season stats like points and rank

[rysull23]

Here's what I put together for fetching player_points. Can prob be cleaned up a bit, but it works. I stuck it in Player Object b/c I wasn't sure how else to utilize it inside the Player Object...

    def fetch_player_points(self, playerId: int):
        """Retrieves a player's points"""

        params = {
            'scoringPeriodId': 5,
            'view': 'kona_player_info',

        }
        filters = {"players": {
            "filterIds": {"value": [playerId]},
            "sortPercOwned": {"sortPriority": 2, "sortAsc": False},
            "filterStatsForTopScoringPeriodIds": {"value": 3,
                                                  "additionalValue": ["002019", "102019", "002018", "1120195",
                                                                      "022019"]}}}
        headers = {'x-fantasy-filter': json.dumps(filters)}
        r = requests.get(self.ENDPOINT, params=params, cookies=self.cookies, headers=headers)
        data = r.json()

        stats = data['players'][0]['player']['stats']
        player_points = {}
        for stat in stats:

            if stat['id'] == str('00') + str(self.year):
                player_points['points_season_total'] = stat['appliedTotal']
                player_points['points_season_average'] = stat['appliedAverage']
            if stat['id'] == str('00') + str(self.year-1):
                player_points['points_season_last'] = stat['appliedTotal']
            if stat['scoringPeriodId'] == self.current_week:
                player_points['points_week_current'] = stat['appliedTotal']
            if stat['scoringPeriodId'] == self.current_week - 1:
                player_points['points_week_last'] = stat['appliedTotal']

        return player_points

[rysull23]

So back to the title of the Topic -- I wonder how we can get the Player Object into he Recent Activity?

[cwendt94]

Does that endpoint return the correct data to create a player object with it? Because if so what we could do is put this function in the League object and pass the function to the activity object to call it with the player ids to create a player

[rysull23]

great question and idea... (I couldn't figure out how to put the function in the league and pass it across :( )

I think most of the attributes in player object should be included in this endpoint. would need to do a little more digging, but certainly seems like it.

I had it run inside the player object when the league was initializing...pretty slow, but cool to have the data.

[cwendt94]

If you look at recent_activity function and the Activity class I pass get_team_data function so I can add the Team class. I was thinking you could do the same thing with a “get_player_function” pass that in and it will create a player object off of the player id

[cwendt94]

@rysull23 Thanks for bringing this back up this year and showing your example code in #133! This is now in package version v0.8.0 🎉

[rysull23]

Welcome. Wow. Forgot about this. Lots of detail here. Thanks for incorporating.

The other piece of this which I spent a ton of time on was figuring out how to get more stat info out of that free_agent api. it's a bit cryptic, but I came close.