PBP¶

LivePbpLoader loads pbp data for a game and creates LivePbpItem 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 LivePbpFileLoader, LivePbpLoader

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

class pbpstats.data_loader.live.pbp.loader.LivePbpLoader(game_id, source_loader)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.live.base.LiveLoaderBase

Loads live data source pbp data for game. Events are stored in items attribute as LivePbpItem objects

Parameters:	game_id (str) – NBA Stats Game Id source_loader – `LivePbpFileLoader` or `LivePbpWebLoader` object

data¶: returns raw JSON response data

data_provider = 'live'¶

parent_object = 'Game'¶

resource = 'Pbp'¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.live.pbp.file.LivePbpFileLoader(file_directory)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.live.file_loader.LiveFileLoader

A LivePbpFileLoader object should be instantiated and passed into LivePbpLoader when loading data from file

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

load_data(game_id)[source]¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.live.pbp.web.LivePbpWebLoader(file_directory=None)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.live.web_loader.LiveWebLoader

A LivePbpWebLoader object should be instantiated and passed into LivePbpLoader 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 live_<game_id>.json in the /pbp subdirectory. If not provided response data will not be saved on disk.

load_data(game_id)[source]¶