Games played limits?

[jaredmontierth]

Is there a games played attribute for basketball? I did some digging but wasn't able to find it or anything similar. It would be useful to have since the number of games allowed changes week to week (depending on how many NBA games there are in that week) and I want to make a tool that uses that info.

[cwendt94]

Are you thinking about per player the games they played that week, or total games they have played in the season?

[cwendt94]

Oh okay, I have never seen that before. If ESPN shows it, I should be able to get it from their API. What view is this data shown on? Like your team view, matchup, box score?

[jaredmontierth]

It shows up at the top of the box score page, which is where I got that second screenshot. The url is like https://fantasy.espn.com/basketball/boxscore?leagueId={}&matchupPeriodId={}&seasonId={}&teamId={}

[cwendt94]

Perfect, I will check out the API data from ESPN!

[jaredmontierth]

I did a debug call on my league and found this:
"statBySlot": {"15": {"exceededOnScoringPeriod": 13, "limitExceeded": true, "statId": 42, "value": 40.0}}, "ties": 0, "wins": 0}, "gamesPlayed": 0, "pointsByScoringPeriod": {"7": 238.0, "8": 114.0, "9": 291.0, "10": 75.0, "11": 180.0, "12": 240.0, "13": 239.0}, "teamId": 5, "totalPoints": 1377.0}

value seems to be the amount of games a team has used -- this was a case where a team had 40/36 (it is pretty standard and good strategy to exceed the limit on the last day, since it can't penalize you the next day -- just a weird ESPN league quirk, some discussion about it here)

Since this team maxed out, I think that sets limitExceeded to true and assigns a value for exceededOnScoringPeriod which I think is the day that the team reached the max. statId being 42 maps to GP in STATS_MAP in constant.py which makes sense.

The only thing I wasn't able to find was where the weekly limit lives (the 36 in the screenshot from this example). Control F is only getting me so far, lol. Hopefully this helps maybe a little.

[cwendt94]

Thats definitely helpful! Im still trying to figure out where that value is sourced as well. Would you be able to capture the API call that ESPN is making when you go to Box Score on their website. If you inspect the page and go to the network tab you should see an API call that looks like this https://lm-api-reads.fantasy.espn.com/apis/v3/games/fba/seasons/2024/segments/0/leagues/1301764861?scoringPeriodId=6&view=mBoxscore&view=mMatchupScore&view=mRoster&view=mSettings&view=mStatus&view=mTeam&view=modular&view=mNav. You should be able to see the data under Preview and Response tab. This could help trying to figure out where they are storing those values.