Wikidata:Property proposal/Opta football player ID
Opta football player ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports
| Description | Opta football player ID |
|---|---|
| Represents | association football player (Q937857) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | Wikidata property for authority control for people (Q19595382), Wikidata property for an identifier (Q19847637), Wikidata property related to association football (Q23661205) |
| Allowed values | [1-9]\d* |
| Example 1 | Lionel Messi (Q615) → 19054 |
| Example 2 | Jimmy McLaughlin (Q6200801) → 102553 |
| Example 3 | Omar Ciss (Q97482469) → 506076 |
| Planned use | Immediately, I'd like to use this to link MLS players with USL Championship players. But there are many more potential use cases beyond that. |
| Number of IDs in source | ~500,000 (The total isn't published by Opta, but the IDs seem to have been assigned sequentially, and as listed in the examples, they've gotten at least as high as 506076.) |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Robot and gadget jobs | collecting data, using the IDs to link other datasets |
Motivation[edit]
Opta Sports (Q3354444) is a very prominent sports data company, and they use a consistent ID scheme across all their association football data (which they claim includes 1,000+ leagues/competitions and 200,000+ matches). They do not offer the data for free on their own website (and annoyingly, even their documentation requires a paying account), but their data is used by many other websites, so the IDs can still be found all over the web. For example, Lionel Messi (player 19054) plays in FC Barcelona (team 178) in La Liga (competition 23). Knowing those three IDs, you can find his 2019 season stats on beIN Sports, Mediaset, Telemundo Deportes, and many others (try googling inurl:19054 messi).
There are also many other sites which use the data without exposing it in the URL, by way of Opta's widgets; e.g. USL Championship and Major League Soccer. Although these are not useful for the purpose of automatically generating external links, it is quite useful as a universal identifier that can be used to link datasets. For example, I have sources that provide Opta IDs for players in bothUSL Championship and Major League Soccer. I'd like to use these datasets to systematically fill in MLS player ID (P2398) based on known values of USL Championship player ID (P4019), and vice-versa. There are likely to be many more use cases like this, as Opta data feeds are fairly popular in the industry. –IagoQnsi (talk) 01:42, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Support--Trade (talk) 13:01, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- @IagoQnsi, Trade:
Done Opta football player ID (P8736) Pamputt (talk) 06:30, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
Oppose Y'à aucun liens qui fonctionne Pamputt ! Y'à 0 football player ID sur optasports.com. Je vois aucun intérêt... Arturo63 (talk) 12:50, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
