Basketball Head

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Basketball Head is a modern NBA analytics API delivering fast, reliable access to player statistics, historical game data, advanced metrics, team information, and AI-ready basketball analytics. Built for developers, sports analysts, fantasy basketball platforms, media applications, betting research, and basketball enthusiasts, Basketball Head provides a scalable low-latency API powered by…

457 subscribers
9.6/10 popularity
201 ms avg latency
98% success rate
30 endpoints
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Basketball Head endpoints

MethodEndpointDescription
Player Discovery
GET getPlayerByPlayerId
/players/{player_id} 		Get one player metadata record by Basketball Reference player ID, for example jamesle01.
POST listPlayers
/players 		List player metadata records with pagination support. Use this endpoint for broad player discovery.
POST listPlayersByFirstName
/players/search 		List player metadata records matching a lowercase request body field named firstname and optional lastname prefix.
POST listPlayersByLastName
/players/lastname 		List player metadata records matching a last name prefix with pagination support.
Player Career Stats
GET getPlayerAdvancedStats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Advanced 		Get advanced season stat rows for a player. Optional filters: seasonType can be Regular or Playoffs; seasonId must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
GET getPlayerPer100Stats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Per100 		Get per-100-possession season stat rows for a player. Optional filters: seasonType can be Regular or Playoffs; seasonId must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
GET getPlayerPerGameStats
/players/{player_id}/stats/PerGame 		Get per-game season stat rows for a player. Optional filters: seasonType can be Regular or Playoffs; seasonId must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
GET getPlayerPer36Stats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Per36 		Get per-36-minute season stat rows for a player. Optional filters: seasonType can be Regular or Playoffs; seasonId must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
GET getPlayerCareerSalaries
/players/{player_id}/stats/Salary 		Get career salary rows for a player by Basketball Reference player ID, for example jamesle01.
GET getPlayerTotalStats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Totals 		Get total season stat rows for a player. Optional filters: seasonType can be Regular or Playoffs; seasonId must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
Team Information
GET getTeamSchedule
/teams/{team_id}/schedule/{season_id} 		Get team schedule by team ID and season. The season_id path value must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
GET getTeamRoster
/teams/{team_id}/roster/{season_id} 		Get team roster by team ID and season. The season_id path value must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
GET getTeamMetadata
/teams/{team_id}/metadata/{season_id} 		Get team metadata by team ID and season. The season_id path value must use YYYY-YYYY format, for example 2025-2026.
Player Game Stats
POST listPlayerGamesBySeason
/players/{player_id}/games/{season_id} 		List player game log rows for one NBA season with pagination support. The season_id path value is the ending season year, for example 2026 for the 2025-2026 season.
POST listPlayerGames
/players/{player_id}/games 		List player game log rows for all available seasons with pagination support.
Other endpoints
POST listPlayers
/players 		List players by first name index with pagination support.
POST listPlayersByLastName
/players/lastname 		List players matching a last name prefix.
POST listPlayersByFirstName
/players/search 		List players matching a first name and optional last name prefix.
GET getPlayerByPlayerId
/players/{player_id} 		Get player metadata by player ID.
POST listPlayerGames
/players/{player_id}/games 		List game log records for a player with pagination support.
POST listPlayerGamesBySeason
/players/{player_id}/games/{season_id} 		List game log records for a player and season with pagination support.
GET getPlayerTotalStats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Totals 		Get total stats for a player.
GET getTeamMetadata
/teams/{team_id}/metadata/{season_id} 		Get team metadata by team ID and season.
GET getTeamSchedule
/teams/{team_id}/schedule/{season_id} 		Get team schedule by team ID and season.
GET getTeamRoster
/teams/{team_id}/roster/{season_id} 		Get team roster by team ID and season.
GET getPlayerPer100Stats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Per100 		Get per-100-possession stats for a player.
GET getPlayerPer36Stats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Per36 		Get per-36-minute stats for a player.
GET getPlayerCareerSalaries
/players/{player_id}/stats/Salary 		Get career salary records for a player.
GET getPlayerPerGameStats
/players/{player_id}/stats/PerGame 		Get per-game stats for a player.
GET getPlayerAdvancedStats
/players/{player_id}/stats/Advanced 		Get advanced stats for a player.

Basketball Head pricing

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BASIC Free —
  • Requests: 100 / daily
PRO Recommended $5 / month —
  • Requests: 22,000 / daily

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