PBP

StatsNbaPbpLoader loads pbp data for a game and creates StatsNbaPbpItem 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 StatsNbaPbpFileLoader, StatsNbaPbpLoader

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

class pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.pbp.loader.StatsNbaPbpLoader(game_id, source_loader)

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.base.StatsNbaLoaderBase

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

Parameters:

• game_id (str) – NBA Stats Game Id
• source_loader – StatsNbaPbpFileLoader or StatsNbaPbpWebLoader object

data_provider = 'stats_nba'

parent_object = 'Game'

resource = 'Pbp'

class pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.pbp.file.StatsNbaPbpFileLoader(file_directory)

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.file_loader.StatsNbaFileLoader

A StatsNbaPbpFileLoader object should be instantiated and passed into StatsNbaPbpLoader when loading data from file

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

load_data(game_id)

class pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.pbp.web.StatsNbaPbpWebLoader(file_directory=None)

Bases: pbpstats.data_loader.stats_nba.web_loader.StatsNbaWebLoader

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

load_data(game_id)