Get NBA player rank and projected rank?

[salbro]

Is there a way to get an NBA player's rank and projected rank? I can't seem to figure it out.

[JaumeClave]

Bump. I would love to figure this out as well. From what I can tell, the Players Collection of the Yahoo Fantasy Sports API can return player rank. I can't seem to find out how to do this with this library.

Thank you for this resource. It is incredibly useful!

[JaumeClave]

I think I have figured it out @salbro. The Yhandler class inside yhandler.py has a get() function (here). You can append your URI to it and return player original rank or actual rank.

from yahoo_oauth import OAuth2
from yahoo_fantasy_api import yhandler
sc = OAuth2(None, None, from_file={your_file_path})
yh = yhandler.YHandler(sc)
yh.get(f"/league/{your_league_id}/players;status=FA;sort=AR")

FA, as documented in this library, returns league free agents and AR will return the actual rank based on your league settings. This repo has better documentation than the Yahoo Fantasy Sports API documentation. I believe Original Rank OR is projected rank but I am not 100% on that.

[salbro]

Thanks, JaumeClave! That's really helpful. For posterity, here's some code to fetch all players ranks (and name and keys) from a league object:

def get_player_ranks(league):
    all_ranks = {}
    rank_start = 0
    while True:
        ranked_players = league.yhandler.get(f"/league/{league.league_id}/players;sort=AR;start={rank_start}")
        player_dict = ranked_players['fantasy_content']['league'][1]['players']
        if player_dict == []:
            break
        ranks = {}
        for maybe_rank, player in player_dict.items():
            if maybe_rank == 'count':
                continue
            player_key = player['player'][0][0]['player_key'] 
            player_id = int(player['player'][0][1]['player_id'])
            player_full_name = player['player'][0][2]['name']['full']
            ranks[player_id] = {'rank': rank_start + int(maybe_rank) + 1,
                                'key': player_key,
                                'full name': player_full_name}
        all_ranks.update(ranks)
        rank_start += 25
    return all_ranks

[JaumeClave]

@salbro - Yeah, that is great! Thanks for sharing that. I'll be using it in my project!