Issue with random game IDs

[zenverak]

I am currently looping through games in a season to gather data. I then use that game id to generate some more data.

Note the following game IDs

id is 2016_04_03_slnmlb_pitmlb_1
id is 2016_04_03_nynmlb_kcamlb_1
id is 2016_04_03_tormlb_tbamlb_1
id is 2016_04_03_chnmlb_anamlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_phimlb_cinmlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_lanmlb_sdnmlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_colmlb_arimlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_chnmlb_anamlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_sfnmlb_milmlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_tormlb_tbamlb_1
id is 2016_04_04_houmlb_nyamlb_1

When I run

stats = mlbgame.team_stats(game_id)

everything is fine up until the last id

2016_04_04_houmlb_nyamlb_1

I get the following error

Could not find a game with that id.

Any idea how that can happen? The id is generated from the game object itself. Seems a bit odd to me.

Edit: After doing more research I believe what is happening here is that these are game IDs for game that actually didn't happen/post poned. They get a game id but when I try to search for them in in team_stats() it fails.

I am not sure if this was intended or not.

Edit 2:

I ran my program with a try to find which game_ids for the whole season were not able to be found by

mlbgame.team_stats()

They were

CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_04_bosmlb_clemlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_09_miamlb_wasmlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_10_nyamlb_detmlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_17_balmlb_texmlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_27_milmlb_chnmlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_28_pitmlb_colmlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_04_30_atlmlb_chnmlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_05_16_bosmlb_kcamlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_05_26_chamlb_kcamlb_1
CAN'T FIND a game with id of 2016_09_25_atlmlb_miamlb_1

I assume there would be more than ten rainouts/ cancelled games

[panzarino]

Chances are that those games were cancelled. Can you check if the game type is sg_game? This game type means that the game wasn't played, which could lead to these errors.

I will investigate further.

[panzarino]

So the games that you are getting an error with are games that were not played. Unfortunately, to check this on the API side would be too inefficient for a majority of users and should be done by the client.

In this case, you should check the type of the game and if it is sg_game, do not try to get stats for that game because they don't exist.