Defense Tracking

[dtkavana]

Do you have any idea why
NBA.stats.playerTracking({ PtMeasureType: "Defense" });
would be returning different data than you will find via https://stats.nba.com/player/201143/defense-dash/?Season=2018-19&SeasonType=Regular%20Season.

I used Al Horford as an example:
Via the above call
defRimFgPct: 0.564
defRimFga: 6.1
defRimFgm: 3.4

Via stats.nba.com
defRimFgPct: 0.552
defRimFga: 7.4
defRimFgm: 4.1

Both return the same number of games played.

Thanks

[bttmly]

No idea except that playerTracking uses a different endpoint (http://stats.nba.com/stats/leaguedashptstats). I've seen some comments lately that some of the older endpoints seem to have delayed data (#55). I'd accept a PR to add this defense-dash endpoint but its a bit of a different format from how all the other stats endpoints are currently constructed – notice that the player id is in the path rather than the query parameters. FWIW the stats endpoints in this package are generated dynamically by a JSON file you can find here https://github.com/bttmly/nba-client-template