ff_scoringhistory() and return fumbles for Sleeper

[draftydesert277]

Describe the bug Discovered when comparing aggregate ff_scoringhistory() results by team that ff_scoringhistory() appears to be ignoring return fumbles. This is a pretty obscure scoring thing that I think may be unique to Sleeper. See: https://support.sleeper.app/en/articles/4056849-why-did-my-player-lose-points-for-a-special-teams-fumble

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Expected behavior Return fumbles to hit ff_scoringhistory() same as any other fumble

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Additional context For reference, check out nflfastR data for Eagles/Rams, 2020. Cooper Kupp fumbled on a punt return, and I can verify that ff_scoringhistory() is 2.0 pts higher for my league than his official score in the Sleeper app.

[tanho63]

Hm! That’s interesting. Will try to see if nflfastr has return fumbles

[tanho63]

Hmm, it seems like they don’t have it, unfortunately: https://www.nflfastr.com/reference/calculate_player_stats.html

I’ll see if I can raise an issue and/or help fix it over there first and then can revisit this issue

[draftydesert277]

Good news - they do! I was actually able to pull the fumble I referenced specifically. Not sure how easy this is to incorporate into existing functionality but check this out:

lar_phi <- nflfastR::build_nflfastR_pbp(game_ids = "2020_02_LA_PHI")

lar_phi <- filter(lar_phi, fumbled_1_player_id == "00-0033908")

lar_phi_t <- transpose(lar_phi)

Also I admit this is a bit of a hunch as I wasn't able to easily verify this for other games.

[draftydesert277]

Hmm, it seems like they don’t have it, unfortunately: https://www.nflfastr.com/reference/calculate_player_stats.html

I’ll see if I can raise an issue and/or help fix it over there first and then can revisit this issue

Oh! I see it's an issue with their stat aggregation. I assumed you were doing some wizardry with the raw pbp data.

I suppose I could work around this by creating a separate dataset of just kick/fumble returns based on build_nflfastR_pbp()?

[tanho63]

Yup, that’s definitely a way to get around it for now, I suspect that the nflfastr team would be happy to take in requests for these sort of aggregations

[tanho63]

Tacked on a request at nflverse/nflfastR#235, when that gets resolved I can re-map here.

[tanho63]

Brief update as of 2022-12-11: still pending on fumble recovery/fumble returns being included in nflreadr::load_player_stats(), at the moment this is still unscheduled. Also tracked in: nflverse/nflfastR#336.