KeyError: 'stats' in player.py

[MihaMuskinja]

Sport

Basketball

Summary

I get a KeyError: 'stats' during the api execution. Has something changed in the api?

Logs/Data

  File "/Users/mihamuskinja/git/fantasy/api.py", line 56, in get_league
    league = League(league_id=109755, year=2025, swid=swid, espn_s2=espn_s2, debug=True)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/basketball/league.py", line 19, in __init__
    self.fetch_league()
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/basketball/league.py", line 23, in fetch_league
    self._fetch_teams(data)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/basketball/league.py", line 50, in _fetch_teams
    super()._fetch_teams(data, TeamClass=Team, pro_schedule=pro_schedule)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/base_league.py", line 86, in _fetch_teams
    self.teams.append(TeamClass(team, roster=roster, schedule=schedule, year=seasonId, owners=owners, pro_schedule=pro_schedule))
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/basketball/team.py", line 30, in __init__
    self._fetch_roster(roster, year, kwargs.get('pro_schedule'))
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/basketball/team.py", line 44, in _fetch_roster
    self.roster.append(Player(player, year, pro_schedule))
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniconda/base/envs/fantasy/lib/python3.11/site-packages/espn_api/basketball/player.py", line 45, in __init__
    if split['stats']:
       ~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'stats'

[MihaMuskinja]

Maybe change this?

                if split['stats']:

into

                if 'stats' in split and split['stats']:

[monsdar]

Updating espn_api to the newest version solved this for me. Came from 0.39.0, updated to 0.40.1

UPDATE: Nevermind... My unittests were just called in a different order. The issue still persists, it just comes up later in the test suite and I was too fast writing this message.

[monsdar]

Seems to be similar to this issue: https://github.com/cwendt94/espn-api/pull/591/files

So changing split['stats'] to split.get('stats') should be good enough.

[monsdar]

Yeah, that works fine for me locally, PR incoming

[martincham]

Was curious about why this is happening. Heres some splits for Bogdan Bogdanovich. Some werid stuff going on with the 'externalId' as well.

[atagunduzalp]

hi guys, when is this commit merged and usable? thanks!

[shaggycamel]

I'm experiencing this issue too

[nathanlochunho]

Same, hope this issue will be fixed soon!

[monsdar]

Even when my PR fixes the error it's still unclear what happens datawise. It's not really a fix when there's no exception anymore but half of the data is missing.

[martincham]

It's not really a fix when half of the data is missing.

There doesn't seem to be data missing. This case is only happening for Bogdan Bogdaovich, Dejounte Murray, and Immanuel Quickly. They all played the 1st game of the season and have missed since, so their "Last 7" stats are empty. For some reason ESPN is differently populating players who've missed part of the season, rather than the whole season. Perhaps some edge-case error they introduced in their API?

[martincham]

Same, hope this issue will be fixed soon!

hi guys, when is this commit merged and usable? thanks!

You can also fix it locally. Go to player.py, or debug and trace it to where your player.py is located, and change line 45 to :

if split.get('stats'):

[monsdar]

There doesn't seem to be data missing.

Awesome, thanks for checking that!

You can also fix it locally.

I just ported our Telegram bot to run as an Azure Function. There's no easy way to fix it within the function, so I guess I'll need to wait for the merge. Hooray, Cloud!

[cwendt94]

Thanks for all the investigation! The fix has been added in v0.41.0!