Boxscore¶

StatsNbaGameFinderLoader loads all games for a season and creates StatsNbaGameItem objects for each game

The following code will load data for the 2019-20 NBA Regular Season

from pbpstats.data_loader import StatsNbaGameFinderWebLoader, StatsNbaGameFinderLoader

source_loader = StatsNbaGameFinderWebLoader("/data")
game_finder_loader = StatsNbaGameFinderLoader("nba", "2019-20", "Regular Season", source_loader)
print(game_finder_loader.items[0].data) # prints dict for first game

class pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.game_finder.loader.StatsNbaGameFinderLoader(league, season, season_type, source_loader)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.base.StatsNbaLoaderBase

Loads stats.nba.com source data for season. Games are stored in items attribute as StatsNbaGameItem objects

Parameters:	league (str) – Options are ‘nba’, ‘wnba’ or ‘gleague’ season (str) – Formatted as 2019-20 for NBA and G-League, 2019 of WNBA. season_type (str) – Options are ‘Regular Season’ or ‘Playoffs’ or ‘Play In’ source_loader – `StatsNbaGameFinderFileLoader` or `StatsNbaGameFinderWebLoader` object

data_provider = 'stats_nba'¶

parent_object = 'Season'¶

resource = 'Games'¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.game_finder.file.StatsNbaGameFinderFileLoader(file_directory)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.file_loader.StatsNbaFileLoader

A StatsNbaGameFinderFileLoader object should be instantiated and passed into StatsNbaGameFinderLoader when loading data from file

Parameters:	file_directory (str) – Directory in which data should be loaded from. The specific file location will be stats_<league>_<season>_<season_type>.json in the /schedule subdirectory.

load_data(league, season, season_type)[source]¶

class pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.game_finder.web.StatsNbaGameFinderWebLoader(file_directory=None)[source]¶

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.web_loader.StatsNbaWebLoader

A StatsNbaGameFinderWebLoader object should be instantiated and passed into StatsNbaGameFinderLoader 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 stats_<league>_<season>_<season_type>.json in the /schedule subdirectory. If not provided response data will not be saved on disk.

load_data(league, season, season_type)[source]¶