Port of master pull-request BurntSushi#328 (#14)

* 22nd Annual Charles Leno Junior Memorial Award(TM)

* Cleanup nfl team list in __init__.py

Removed arbitary teams that included a dot between letters as alternate name.
Reordered SD and LAC teams so non-existant SD team quit overwriting LAC.

* Fix TypeError when reduce() is performed on an empty list

* _create_schedule demonstration

nflgame/__init__.py

@@ -124,26 +124,27 @@
     ['DAL', 'Dallas', 'Cowboys', 'Dallas Cowboys'],
     ['DEN', 'Denver', 'Broncos', 'Denver Broncos'],
     ['DET', 'Detroit', 'Lions', 'Detroit Lions'],
-    ['GB', 'Green Bay', 'Packers', 'Green Bay Packers', 'G.B.', 'GNB'],
+    ['GB', 'Green Bay', 'Packers', 'Green Bay Packers', 'GNB'],
     ['HOU', 'Houston', 'Texans', 'Houston Texans'],
     ['IND', 'Indianapolis', 'Colts', 'Indianapolis Colts'],
     ['JAC', 'Jacksonville', 'Jaguars', 'Jacksonville Jaguars', 'JAX'],
-    ['KC', 'Kansas City', 'Chiefs', 'Kansas City Chiefs', 'K.C.', 'KAN'],
-    ['LA', 'Los Angeles', 'Rams', 'Los Angeles Rams', 'L.A.'],
+    ['KC', 'Kansas City', 'Chiefs', 'Kansas City Chiefs', 'KAN'],
+    ['LA', 'Los Angeles', 'Rams', 'Los Angeles Rams', 'LAR'],
+    ['SD', 'San Diego', 'Chargers', 'San Diego Chargers', 'SDG'],
+    ['LAC', 'Los Angeles C', 'Chargers', 'Los Angeles Chargers', 'LAC'],
     ['MIA', 'Miami', 'Dolphins', 'Miami Dolphins'],
     ['MIN', 'Minnesota', 'Vikings', 'Minnesota Vikings'],
-    ['NE', 'New England', 'Patriots', 'New England Patriots', 'N.E.', 'NWE'],
-    ['NO', 'New Orleans', 'Saints', 'New Orleans Saints', 'N.O.', 'NOR'],
-    ['NYG', 'Giants', 'New York Giants', 'N.Y.G.'],
-    ['NYJ', 'Jets', 'New York Jets', 'N.Y.J.'],
+    ['NE', 'New England', 'Patriots', 'New England Patriots', 'NWE'],
+    ['NO', 'New Orleans', 'Saints', 'New Orleans Saints', 'NOR'],
+    ['NYG', 'New York G', 'Giants', 'New York Giants'],
+    ['NYJ', 'New York J', 'Jets', 'New York Jets'],
     ['OAK', 'Oakland', 'Raiders', 'Oakland Raiders'],
     ['PHI', 'Philadelphia', 'Eagles', 'Philadelphia Eagles'],
     ['PIT', 'Pittsburgh', 'Steelers', 'Pittsburgh Steelers'],
-    ['SD', 'San Diego', 'Chargers', 'San Diego Chargers', 'S.D.', 'SDG'],
     ['SEA', 'Seattle', 'Seahawks', 'Seattle Seahawks'],
-    ['SF', 'San Francisco', '49ers', 'San Francisco 49ers', 'S.F.', 'SFO'],
-    ['STL', 'St. Louis', 'Rams', 'St. Louis Rams', 'S.T.L.'],
-    ['TB', 'Tampa Bay', 'Buccaneers', 'Tampa Bay Buccaneers', 'T.B.', 'TAM'],
+    ['SF', 'San Francisco', '49ers', 'San Francisco 49ers', 'SFO'],
+    ['STL', 'St. Louis', 'Rams', 'St. Louis Rams'],
+    ['TB', 'Tampa Bay', 'Buccaneers', 'Tampa Bay Buccaneers', 'TAM'],
     ['TEN', 'Tennessee', 'Titans', 'Tennessee Titans'],
     ['WAS', 'Washington', 'Redskins', 'Washington Redskins', 'WSH'],
 ]
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ def standard_team(team):
     nflgame.teams (case insensitive).  All known variants of a team name are
     searched. If no team is found, None is returned.
     """
-    team = team.lower()
+    team = team.lower().replace('.', '')
     for variants in teams:
         for variant in variants:
             if team == variant.lower():
@@ -370,6 +371,8 @@ def combine_play_stats(games):
     N.B. Since this combines *all* play data, this function may take a while
     to complete depending on the number of games passed in.
     """
+    if not games:
+        return []
     return reduce(lambda p1, p2: p1 + p2,
                   [g.drives.players() for g in games if g is not None])
 

nflgame/sched.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ def _create_schedule(jsonf=None):
     dictionaries with the following keys: week, month, year, home,
     away, wday, gamekey, season_type, time.
     """
+    print "...back again"
     day = 60 * 60 * 24
     if jsonf is None:
         jsonf = _sched_json_file
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ def _create_schedule(jsonf=None):
             last_updated = datetime.datetime.now()
     return d, last_updated
 
+print "Guess who's back..."
 games, last_updated = _create_schedule()
 
 __pdoc__['nflgame.sched.games'] = """

nflgame/update_players.py

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ def meta_from_soup_row(team, soup_row):
     if ',' not in name:
         last_name, first_name = name, ''
     else:
-        last_name, first_name = map(lambda s: s.strip(), name.split(','))
+        last_name, first_name = map(lambda s: s.strip(), name.split(','))[:2]
 
     return {
         'team': team,