Way to get boxscores of just one specified team Basketball

[smoudour]

Hi, I've been developing an extension of the API concerning NBA Fantasy Stats and Analyses. I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to get the scores of a specific team in a 9 cat league for each week's matchup, other than getting all the scores for each week (using box_score member function and then looping through all the acquired matchups. It would be faster to just grab the matchup of interest (i.e. the one containing the specified team only).

[cwendt94]

Are you only looking for the score for each week in that matchup? We might be able to get that data from the schedule filed in each Team Class. It is using the Matchup class but Im not sure how it would look for 9 cat league. But that could be a starting point and then update the logic for cat leagues.

[smoudour]

I'm looking for the values in each category and not just the overall score (e.g. 6-3). What I'm trying to do is for example compare stats of team 1 and team 2 for every week, like if they played against each other every time. Currently I'm getting the complete boxscore for every week, and then using something like:

def boxscores_to_dict(week_boxscores: list[H2HCategoryBoxScore]) -> dict:

    teams_stats = {}
    for boxscore in week_boxscores:
        team_name_1 = boxscore.home_team.team_name
        team_name_2 = boxscore.away_team.team_name
        teams_stats[team_name_1] = boxscore.home_stats
        teams_stats[team_name_2] = boxscore.away_stats

    return teams_stats

and getting all team stats for say week 1, then isolating stats of desired team(s). Thing is that when getting the week_boxscores list, using my_league.box_scores(week_x) I am unnecessarily getting information for every team, while I only need stats for team1 and team2 - process is slow when doing this for the whole season.
Basically what I am asking is if there is a way to acquire stats (category values) of selected team for selected week directly through my_leage, bypassing boxscores.

[cwendt94]

Okay, yeah I don't think the matchup would help you here. I will have to look to see if there is a way to get all of that data for a specific team.