All injuries dataframe

[sreckoskocilic]

I have been using a simple method that scrapes injuries data from https://www.cbssports.com/nba/injuries/ on a regular basis to review inactive players for each team. I would be glad to make a small contribution to this project to add this method. Sometimes it is a bit hard to combine daily pdf reports from existing implementation in order to get a list of all injured (active) players together with latest injury updates and statuses.

[mxufc29]

Hi - thanks for the idea! And sorry for the lag in my response — I’ve been behind due to travel and just caught up here.

With respect to integrating CBS data -- I’m a bit wary about expanding data sources at the moment, since the package is intentionally kept relatively narrow to focus on the nba.com reports. Introducing more dependencies generally means more management/maintenance which I may not have the bandwidth to cover right now, but we can revisit in the near future once the package feels more "settled".

That said, I do think there is value in adding a “latest status” method within the existing implementation by aggregating/filtering the pdf data over a chosen datetime range. E.g.: pull a window of reports (last 24 hrs), deduplicate, reducing entries to the “most recent entry per player/team". Is this approach consistent with your use case and what you described above? Let me know your thoughts, and whether you'd be open to contributing to this!

[sreckoskocilic]

Hi, I completely understand your point of view. What I was trying to get is a list of all injuries and possible comeback date which was kind of hard to extract by following nba.com daily reports. By scraping CBS data I managed to get the overview I was looking for (for demonstration you can visit my test page nbastables.com and go to Injuries tab, there is "All players" view and grouped by team one).

[mxufc29]

Not able to access the test page you linked -- could you paste the content/table on your page below? thanks!

[sreckoskocilic]

missed the typo :(

[sreckoskocilic]

weird, can you try once again please? - https://nbastables.com