Wikidata:Property proposal/NCAA Statistics player ID

NCAA Statistics player ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports

   Not done

Description	identifier for a college sports player on stats.ncaa.org
Represents	NCAA Statistics (Q100895357)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	association football player (Q937857), basketball player (Q3665646), baseball player (Q10871364), American football player (Q19204627), ice hockey player (Q11774891), lacrosse player (Q17682262), volleyball player (Q15117302), water polo player (Q17524364), softball player (Q13388586), tennis player (Q10833314), bowler (Q4951095) and field hockey player (Q10843263)
Example 1	Collin Martin (Q15767517) (soccer) → 11160&org_id=749&stats_player_seq=1350246
Example 2	Chase Gasper (Q64738514) (soccer) → 14060&org_id=392&stats_player_seq=1562205
Example 3	Tyler Miller (Q20709860) (soccer) → 11701&org_id=509&stats_player_seq=1225606
Example 4	Kostas Antetokounmpo (Q50874765) (basketball) → 12620&org_id=175&stats_player_seq=1842968
Example 5	John Curtiss (Q38143211) (baseball) → 11620&org_id=703&stats_player_seq=1314947
Source	https://stats.ncaa.org/search/players
Planned use	Template:Sports links (Q22674492)
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://stats.ncaa.org/player/game_by_game?game_sport_year_ctl_id=$1
See also	NCAA Statistics coach ID

Motivation

Provides official college sports statistics for all sports and all divisions in the NCAA - Arturo63 (talk) 16:02, 31 October 2020 (UTC).

Discussion

•  Oppose So, the strings you've specified don't appear to merely specify a player -- it appears to specify a particular player in a particular season of a particular sport at a particular university. The org_id matches the "NCAA school code" property proposal I've recently made, and the game_sport_year_ctl_id would appear to uniquely identify a season of a sport. The part that actually identifies a player is the stats_player_seq; however, there's no apparent way to link directly to a player across their whole career. If we add the property as specified, it will result in many duplicates (one for each season a player has played in). –IagoQnsi (talk) 00:50, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment  Strong oppose "expected completeness" is completely false (instead of Q21873886). —Eihel (talk) 10:01, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done @Arturo63, IagoQnsi, Eihel: Just formalizing the clear lack of consensus. JesseW (talk) 14:33, 20 March 2021 (UTC)