How do I retrieve advanced stats in place of traditional stats?

[ChristopheBrown]

I found baked in the API that there is a parameter to select Advanced Stats instead of Traditional ones: https://github.com/swar/nba_api/blob/master/docs/nba_api/stats/library/parameters.md#stattype

I would assume this is reached via the playercareerstats endpoint. But I see no documentation on how to structure the request to fetch advanced stats instead of traditional ones

The outputs example of playercareerstats shows no mention of this either.

[wild-bill]

What stats are you looking for specifically? PlayerCareerStats does not return advanced stats. It's possible they're available elsewhere.

The StatType parameter is related to the homepagev2 endpoint (https://github.com/swar/nba_api/blob/master/docs/nba_api/stats/endpoints/homepagev2.md), but it looks like it only returns the top 5 leaders in each category.

[ChristopheBrown]

I'm looking for advanced stats like win shares, box +/-, PER, VORP.