[BUG] Targets and receptions are equal for all of 2003 through 2008

[LinkedInMindset]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Have you installed the latest development version of the package(s) in question?

• I have installed the latest development version of the package.

If this is a data issue, have you tried clearing your nflverse cache?

I have cleared my nflverse cache and the issue persists.

What version of the package do you have?

nfl_data_py-0.3.3

Describe the bug

Targets and receptions are nearly equal for 2003 - 2008:

2000 - Targets 15653 - Receptions 9312
2001 - Targets 15824 - Receptions 9542
2002 - Targets 16854 - Receptions 10314
2003 - Targets 9700 - Receptions 9697
2004 - Targets 9773 - Receptions 9773
2005 - Targets 9793 - Receptions 9793
2006 - Targets 9826 - Receptions 9801
2007 - Targets 10443 - Receptions 10429
2008 - Targets 10105 - Receptions 10089
2009 - Targets 16803 - Receptions 10375

Reprex

# Load season-level data (e.g., from 1999 to 2023)
seasons = list(range(2000, 2010))
df = nfl.import_seasonal_data(seasons)
df.sort_values('season', inplace = True)
for s in df.season.unique():
  
  print('{} - Targets {} - Receptions {}'.format(s, df[df.season == s].targets.sum(), df[df.season == s].receptions.sum()))

Expected Behavior

I'm expecting the ratio to look more like 2000-2002 or 2009.

2000 - Targets 15653 - Receptions 9312
2001 - Targets 15824 - Receptions 9542
2002 - Targets 16854 - Receptions 10314
2003 - Targets 9700 - Receptions 9697
2004 - Targets 9773 - Receptions 9773
2005 - Targets 9793 - Receptions 9793
2006 - Targets 9826 - Receptions 9801
2007 - Targets 10443 - Receptions 10429
2008 - Targets 10105 - Receptions 10089
2009 - Targets 16803 - Receptions 10375

nflverse_sitrep

NA

Screenshots

Additional context

No response

[mrcaseb]

Can confirm this and it is a bug in the underlying data. Target stat_id 115 is mostly missing in our raw pbp data. This must have been introduced by NFL at some point in the last 1-2 years and we incorporated the issue when updating our raw pbp data.

Likely a won't fix

[mrcaseb]

Here's the problem. NFL messed up playstats and removed almost all stat ID 115 stats. Those are used to count targets

[mrcaseb]

I am going to transfer this to nflfastR to make sure I don't forget to come back to this and check whether the data is fixed