Get team player was on during the game, not current team

I am trying to create a master table of every player (besides kickers) and each of their stats for each week. I want the ‘Team’ column in the table to show the team they were on for that game, not the team that they are currently on; but, I am not sure how to do this.

import nfldb
import pandas as pd
from pandas import DataFrame as df

db = nfldb.connect()

playerList = []
bigList = []

def Get_Yds_Per(yds,att):
    if att != 0:
        return yds / att
    elif att == 0:
        return 0

q = nfldb.Query(db)
q.game(season_year=2015,season_type='Regular')
q.player(position__ne='K')
for g in q.as_players():
    playerList.append([str(g.full_name),str(g.team),str(g.position)])

for i in range(1,18):
    for p in playerList:
        q = nfldb.Query(db)
        q.game(season_year=2015,season_type='Regular',week=i)
        q.player(full_name=p[0])
        for a in q.as_aggregate():
            bigList.append([p[0],p[1],p[2],i,a.passing_cmp,a.passing_att,a.passing_yds,
                            Get_Yds_Per(a.passing_cmp_air_yds,a.passing_att),a.passing_int,
                            a.passing_tds,a.passing_sk,a.rushing_att,a.rushing_yds,
                            Get_Yds_Per(a.rushing_yds,a.rushing_att),a.rushing_tds,
                            a.receiving_rec,a.receiving_tar,a.receiving_yds,
                            Get_Yds_Per(a.receiving_yds,a.receiving_rec),a.receiving_tds,
                            a.fumbles_rec+a.fumbles_lost,a.fumbles_lost])

bigDF = df(bigList, columns=["Name","Team","Position","Week","Pass Comp","Pass Atts",
                             "Pass Yds","Yds/Pass","Ints","Pass TDs","Sacks","Rush Atts",
                             "Rush Yds","Yds/Rush","Rush TDs","Receptions","Targets",
                             "Rec Yds","Yds/Rec","Rec TDs","Fumbles","Fumbles Lost"])

print bigDF

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[BurntSushi]

You’ll need to use the team field from the play_player table, which records the team of the player for which that statistical event occurred. Instead of using p[1] for the team, try a.team? (Although I’m not sure if the team field will survive an aggegation. If not, you’ll need to do it all manually.)

[sansbacon]

here is an example of weekly targets and receptions per player - team is taken from play_player, which should be the team the player was on in that game (rather than his current team):

WITH aggwt AS ( SELECT pp.gsis_id, pp.player_id, pp.team, sum(pp.receiving_tar) as tar, sum(pp.receiving_rec) as rec FROM play_player AS pp INNER JOIN game as g ON pp.gsis_id = g.gsis_id WHERE g.season_type = ‘Regular’ GROUP BY pp.gsis_id, pp.player_id, pp.team )

SELECT aggwt.gsis_id, g.season_year, g.week, aggwt.player_id, p.full_name, p.position, aggwt.team, (CASE WHEN aggwt.team = g.home_team THEN g.away_team ELSE g.home_team END) as opp, aggwt.tar, aggwt.rec

FROM aggwt INNER JOIN player as p ON aggwt.player_id = p.player_id INNER JOIN game as g ON aggwt.gsis_id = g.gsis_id

WHERE p.position in (‘RB’, ‘WR’, ‘TE’)