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Failing to match specific player names
My code cycles through everyone who played last year, and pulls statcast data. For 99.9% it works fine. There were a few quirks to code around, such as accents or punctuation in people's names that were throwing it off, but those were all fixable. However when I try to lookup the playerid for Yankees pitcher Michael King via playerid_lookup, it has no idea who he is. Using the fuzzy=True parameter, it gives me Michael Tonkin, Michael Kohn, Michael Kirkman, Michael Young, and Hal King. I can look up his information in the actual statcast webpage just fine. I'm not sure yet if there are any other anomalies like this.
It looks like in the csv that there's a Mike appended before "King, Michael McRae" so if you look up Mike King, you'll get the Yankees pitcher. I'm not sure how the csv is being generated though, so I don't know where Mike is coming from and why it's saved as the first name...
