Average points not populating for non-free agent players - Football

[sissonwt]

Sport

Football

Summary

I've noticed that the season average fantasy points for a player is only populated for free agents while players that are on teams show an avg_points of 0.0. Is there a way to get the average score for every player in the league?

Example code for reproduction. This will print the first player on the home team and the first free agent last week. For the home team player it should say the name and 0.0. For the free agent it will print the name and a non-zero number (although you may need to find a free agent that has a non zero average in case the first guy hasn't played at all)
week = league.current_week -1
matchups = league.box_scores(week)
player = matchups[0].home_lineup[0]
print(player.name,player.avg_points)

free_agents = league.free_agents(week=week,size =1000)
free_agent = free_agents[0]
print(free_agent.name,free_agent.avg_points)

Logs/Data

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[cwendt94]

For the box scores functionality ESPN only returns the points data for that current matchup/week and not for the whole season. You can get a players season average directly from the teams object.

league.teams[0].roster[0].avg_points