{
  "id": 132194,
  "title": "Why MEvents has EventPlayerID=0 but MPlayers does not have PlayerID=0?",
  "url": "/competitions/google-cloud-ncaa-march-madness-2020-division-1-mens-tournament/discussion/132194",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-02-24T19:44:34.283199700Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Anyone knows this? Who player is EventPlayerID=0? Thanks</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "755461",
      "postDate": "02/24/2020 19:44:34",
      "content": "<p>Anyone knows this? Who player is EventPlayerID=0? Thanks</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Anyone knows this? Who player is EventPlayerID=0? Thanks",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "755476",
      "postDate": "02/24/2020 19:59:53",
      "content": "<p>Some events are not associated with a player, like timeouts or starting the game with a jump ball.  There are also a number of regular events that have a player ID of zero, and we are looking into whether or not this is a problem in the original data source.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Some events are not associated with a player, like timeouts or starting the game with a jump ball.  There are also a number of regular events that have a player ID of zero, and we are looking into whether or not this is a problem in the original data source.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "756734",
      "postDate": "02/26/2020 02:47:08",
      "content": "<p>Jeff,  I've been going through the 2019 regular season play-by-play myself and have not noticed any events attributed to EventPlayerID=0 that are explicitly player-specific, such as a substitution.  One of the most common events I've seen were rebounds, likely a team rebound*</p>\n\n<p>*per the NCAA: \"A team rebound is credited to the team that is entitled to the ball for a throw-in if the ball has gone out of bounds after a missed goal but before there was player control. \"</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Jeff,  I've been going through the 2019 regular season play-by-play myself and have not noticed any events attributed to EventPlayerID=0 that are explicitly player-specific, such as a substitution.  One of the most common events I've seen were rebounds, likely a team rebound*\n\n*per the NCAA: \"A team rebound is credited to the team that is entitled to the ball for a throw-in if the ball has gone out of bounds after a missed goal but before there was player control. \"",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "757017",
      "postDate": "02/26/2020 10:57:19",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/dmgriffin\">@dmgriffin</a> This is not true. There are 1177 substitutions with player id '0' in the 2019 events file.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "dmgriffin This is not true. There are 1177 substitutions with player id '0' in the 2019 events file.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "757148",
      "postDate": "02/26/2020 13:33:26",
      "content": "<p>I have been working on individual player stats and so had not perused the entire year data_set, but I am getting the same number of ID=0 substitutions as you for 2019.  So for the season, that puts the total of odd player-substitution data points at 0.17% (1177/670674).  I wonder what the NCAA Statisticians' failure rate is when collecting this data real-time during a game.  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have been working on individual player stats and so had not perused the entire year data_set, but I am getting the same number of ID=0 substitutions as you for 2019.  So for the season, that puts the total of odd player-substitution data points at 0.17% (1177/670674).  I wonder what the NCAA Statisticians' failure rate is when collecting this data real-time during a game.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 755476,
      "author_name": "jeffsonas",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/24/2020 19:59:53",
      "content": "<p>Some events are not associated with a player, like timeouts or starting the game with a jump ball.  There are also a number of regular events that have a player ID of zero, and we are looking into whether or not this is a problem in the original data source.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 756734,
          "author_name": "dmgriffin",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/26/2020 02:47:08",
          "content": "<p>Jeff,  I've been going through the 2019 regular season play-by-play myself and have not noticed any events attributed to EventPlayerID=0 that are explicitly player-specific, such as a substitution.  One of the most common events I've seen were rebounds, likely a team rebound*</p>\n\n<p>*per the NCAA: \"A team rebound is credited to the team that is entitled to the ball for a throw-in if the ball has gone out of bounds after a missed goal but before there was player control. \"</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 757017,
      "author_name": "andrebeton",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/26/2020 10:57:19",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"/dmgriffin\">@dmgriffin</a> This is not true. There are 1177 substitutions with player id '0' in the 2019 events file.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 757148,
          "author_name": "dmgriffin",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/26/2020 13:33:26",
          "content": "<p>I have been working on individual player stats and so had not perused the entire year data_set, but I am getting the same number of ID=0 substitutions as you for 2019.  So for the season, that puts the total of odd player-substitution data points at 0.17% (1177/670674).  I wonder what the NCAA Statisticians' failure rate is when collecting this data real-time during a game.  </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    "755461": "Anyone knows this? Who player is EventPlayerID=0? Thanks",
    "755476": "Some events are not associated with a player, like timeouts or starting the game with a jump ball.  There are also a number of regular events that have a player ID of zero, and we are looking into whether or not this is a problem in the original data source.",
    "756734": "Jeff,  I've been going through the 2019 regular season play-by-play myself and have not noticed any events attributed to EventPlayerID=0 that are explicitly player-specific, such as a substitution.  One of the most common events I've seen were rebounds, likely a team rebound*\n\n*per the NCAA: \"A team rebound is credited to the team that is entitled to the ball for a throw-in if the ball has gone out of bounds after a missed goal but before there was player control. \"",
    "757017": "dmgriffin This is not true. There are 1177 substitutions with player id '0' in the 2019 events file.",
    "757148": "I have been working on individual player stats and so had not perused the entire year data_set, but I am getting the same number of ID=0 substitutions as you for 2019.  So for the season, that puts the total of odd player-substitution data points at 0.17% (1177/670674).  I wonder what the NCAA Statisticians' failure rate is when collecting this data real-time during a game."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}