# 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. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Sports Reference. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/sports-reference.com/get-player-career - Method: `sports-reference.com/get_player_career`, version 1 - Website: sports-reference.com - Returns: player, sport, positions, teams, years active, awards, seasons with stats, career totals - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1ยข with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `sport` | string | no | `"hockey"` | Sport to search, for example basketball. All searches four sports and picks the strongest match. One of "all", "basketball", "football", "baseball", "hockey". Default "all". | | `player` | string | yes | `"Wayne Gretzky"` | The player name, for example Michael Jordan. | ## Output From a run on Oct 23, 2026, shortened. Its input: ```json { "sport": "hockey", "player": "Wayne Gretzky" } ``` Its output: ```json { "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" ] } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"sports-reference.com/get_player_career","input":{"sport":"hockey","player":"Wayne Gretzky"}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - How many career points did LeBron James score across his NBA seasons? - Show me Tom Brady's full career passing stats and season-by-season numbers on sports-reference.com. - What awards has Ichiro Suzuki won during his baseball career, and what were his yearly batting averages? - Pull up Wayne Gretzky's regular-season career totals, teams played for, and years active in hockey. - Find Shaquille O'Neal's career stats, positions, and championships from the basketball reference data. ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "player" ], "properties": { "sport": { "enum": [ "all", "basketball", "football", "baseball", "hockey" ], "type": "string", "default": "all", "description": "Sport to search, for example basketball. All searches four sports and picks the strongest match." }, "player": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1, "description": "The player name, for example Michael Jordan." } } } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "player", "sport", "positions", "teams", "years_active", "player_page_link", "awards_and_honors", "seasons", "player_code" ], "properties": { "sport": { "type": "string" }, "teams": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "player": { "type": "string" }, "seasons": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "properties": { "age": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "team": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "games": { "type": [ "integer", "null" ] }, "league": { "type": [ "string", "null" ] }, "season": { "type": "string" }, "page_link": { "type": "string" } } } }, "positions": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "player_code": { "type": "string" }, "years_active": { "type": "string" }, "player_page_link": { "type": "string" }, "awards_and_honors": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } } } } ``` ## See more - [Sports Reference API: List season leaders](https://fous.com/methods/sports-reference.com/list-season-leaders.md): Lists league leaders for a season and statistic in NBA basketball, NFL football, MLB baseball or NHL hockey. If no season is given, it uses the latest season with published leaders. - [Yahoo API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/sports.yahoo.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up a Yahoo Sports player by name and returns the player's regular-season statistics for a season, alongside career totals. Each stat includes season and career values. - [ESPN API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/espn.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up an ESPN player by name and returns season and career statistics. Use a league to tell apart players with the same name, and a season year or label to pick a past season. - [MLB API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/mlb.com/get-player-stats.md): Gets an MLB player's profile and regular-season hitting and pitching statistics for one season and for his career. Without a season it uses the current season, or the player's latest MLB season if he has no stats this year. - [NBA API: Get player by name](https://fous.com/methods/nba.com/get-player.md): Looks up an NBA player by name, including retired players, and returns the bio and regular-season per-game averages for the reported season and career. - [NHL API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/nhl.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up an NHL player by name, link or ID and returns the profile with regular-season stats for a season and career totals. - [Premier League API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/premierleague.com/get-player-stats.md): Looks up a Premier League player by name and returns the profile and either career totals or the stats for a chosen season. If names clash, a current Premier League player is preferred. - [NFL API: Get player stats](https://fous.com/methods/nfl.com/get-player-stats.md): Gets a named NFL player's season and career stats, with profile details. Active players are preferred when names match. - [All Sports Reference methods](https://fous.com/methods/sports-reference.com.md)