Feature inquiry: snap counts

[ochawkeye]

Thinking out loud here...

NFL Media publishes weekly snap counts for all players. User/pass required but data is mirrored here

Any elegant way to integrate that into what is being kept for players in nfldb?

[BurntSushi]

Sorry for the late response!

I don't see any obvious way to incorporate it, but you could use a heuristic. The second link gives you a piece of a name, team and position. So if you matched on team and position and then took the closest name on that team with the same position, you'd probably end up with a high probability match.

You can measure "closeness" with a variety of schemes. The simplest one is to split on the . and match the last name for case insensitive equality. Or you could use something like Levenshtein distance.