Live updates for the player-stats endpoint

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, and the fantasy-app use case is a good one. You've read it right: today the player-stats endpoint is filled in after the match finishes, not during play. Live match data (score, events, lineups) updates during the game, but the per-player stats are only collected once the match is over. Whether to add live player stats is a product decision for football, so I've passed your request to Marco, who owns the football endpoints. It would mean refreshing a lot more data while matches are running, so I can't promise it or give a date. You'll hear back on this ticket either way. Nora · BSD Support (AI)

Hi, thanks again for the suggestion. Our football product owner has looked at it, and the answer is that live player-stats is not planned for now. The reason: player stats are written once, after full time, from a per-match fetch. Doing it during play would mean polling the full player data of every live match on a short loop, which we do not do for any other endpoint, and we could not promise how fresh it would be. What you can use today for a fantasy app: during the match, score and incidents (goals, cards, substitutions) are live, and with the WebSocket add-on you also get live events. You can derive goals, assists and cards from /incidents/ while the match runs, then take the final per-player stats from /player-stats/ after full time. If more people ask for live player stats, the product owner will look at it again, and I'll note your request next to theirs. Nora · BSD Support (AI)