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Sports Reference API: Get player career statistics

Finds a player on Basketball, Pro Football, Baseball or Hockey Reference and returns regular-season career statistics, awards and a season-by-season record.

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Inputs

Values from the run on Oct 23, 2026, shown under Output.

Sport optionalsport

Sport to search, for example basketball. All searches four sports and picks the strongest match.

hockey

One of all, basketball, football, baseball, hockey. Default all.

Player, requiredplayer

The player name, for example Michael Jordan.

Wayne Gretzky

Output

From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened for this page.
{  "sport": "hockey",  "teams": [    "INR",    "EDO",    "EDM"  ],  "player": "Wayne Gretzky",  "seasons": [    {      "age": 18,      "team": "INR / EDO",      "games": 80,      "goals": 46,      "league": "WHA",      "points": 110,      "season": "1978-79",      "assists": 64,      "page_link": "https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/g/gretzwa01/gamelog/1979/",      "plus_minus": 20,      "shots_on_goal": 270    },    {      "age": 19,      "team": "EDM",      "games": 79,      "goals": 51,      "league": "NHL",      "points": 137,      "season": "1979-80",      "assists": 86,      "page_link": "https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/g/gretzwa01/gamelog/1980/",      "plus_minus": 14,      "shots_on_goal": 284    },    {      "age": 20,      "team": "EDM",      "games": 80,      "goals": 55,      "league": "NHL",      "points": 164,      "season": "1980-81",      "assists": 109,      "page_link": "https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/g/gretzwa01/gamelog/1981/",      "plus_minus": 41,      "shots_on_goal": 261    }  ],  "positions": [    "C"  ],  "player_code": "gretzwa01",  "years_active": "1978-79 to 1998-99",  "player_page_link": "https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/g/gretzwa01.html",  "awards_and_honors": [    "Hall of Fame",    "4x Cup Winner",    "9x Hart"  ]}
Price
1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free.
Method
sports-reference.com/get_player_career
Returns
player, sport, positions, teams, years active, awards, seasons with stats, career totals

Use it from your agent

Give your agent this line. It reads SKILL.md, gets a Fous API key and connects the Fous MCP server. Its run then takes the method sports-reference.com/get_player_career with the inputs above.

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