PBP¶

DataNbaPbpLoader loads pbp data for a game and creates DataNbaPbpItem objects for each event

The following code will load pbp data for game id “0021900001” from a file located in a subdirectory of the /data directory

from pbpstats.data_loader import DataNbaPbpFileLoader, DataNbaPbpLoader

source_loader = DataNbaPbpFileLoader("/data")
pbp_loader = DataNbaPbpLoader("0021900001", source_loader)
print(pbp_loader.items[0].data)  # prints dict with the first event of the game

class pbpstats.data_loader.data_nba.pbp.loader.DataNbaPbpLoader(game_id, source_loader)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.data_nba.base.DataNbaLoaderBase

Loads data.nba.com source pbp data for game. Events are stored in items attribute as DataNbaPbpItem objects

Parameters:	game_id (str) – NBA Stats Game Id source_loader – `DataNbaPbpFileLoader` or `DataNbaPbpWebLoader` object

data¶: returns raw JSON response data

data_provider = 'data_nba'¶

parent_object = 'Game'¶

resource = 'Pbp'¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.data_nba.pbp.file.DataNbaPbpFileLoader(file_directory=None)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.data_nba.file_loader.DataNbaFileLoader

A DataNbaPbpFileLoader object should be instantiated and passed into DataNbaPbpLoader when loading data from file

Parameters:	file_directory (str) – Directory in which data should be loaded from. The specific file location will be data_<game_id>.json in the /pbp subdirectory.

load_data(game_id)[source]¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.data_nba.pbp.web.DataNbaPbpWebLoader(file_directory=None)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.data_nba.web_loader.DataNbaWebLoader

A DataNbaPbpWebLoader object should be instantiated and passed into DataNbaPbpLoader when loading data directly from the NBA Stats API

Parameters:	file_directory (str) – (optional, use it if you want to store the response data on disk) Directory in which data should be either stored. The specific file location will be data_<game_id>.json in the /pbp subdirectory. If not provided response data will not be saved on disk.

load_data(game_id)[source]¶