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StatboticsEpa and StatboticsTeamEvent did not match the API. Against a real /team_events response, getEventTeams threw:

type 'double' is not a subtype of type 'Map<dynamic, dynamic>?' in type cast
  new StatboticsEpa.fromJson (statbotics_models.dart:190)
  new StatboticsTeamEvent.fromJson (statbotics_models.dart:259)
  StatboticsClient.getEventTeams (statbotics_client.dart:52)

Two separate mismatches:

Field Client looked at API sends
EPA total epa.total_points.mean epa.total_points, a bare number
EPA per phase epa.auto_points.mean epa.breakdown.auto_points, bare
wins/losses/ties top-level record.total.*
rank/numTeams top-level record.qual.*

The EPA one throws. The record one is quieter: those four decoded to 0 and null.

Fixed both, and renamed the EPA fields to say what they are. totalPointsMean was sourced from a field that is not a mean, so it is now totalPoints, with autoPoints, teleopPoints, endgamePoints alongside. Added unitless and norm, the scales that compare across seasons. Removed totalPointsSd: the API reports no standard deviation anywhere now.

Also added getTeamYears(team) and StatboticsTeamYear, the remaining half of #9, verified against live data now that it can be. One row per season with that season's EPA, record, and worldwide EPA rank.

Why this survived

Statbotics answered HTTP 500 on every data endpoint from 2026-06-15 until roughly 2026-09-02, so the models could not be run against a live body for eleven weeks. But the outage is only half the reason. The tests asserted against hand-written maps that agreed with the models, so they confirmed the author's belief about the API rather than the API itself. They passed the whole time and would have kept passing.

So the fix is structural, not just a field rename. test/fixtures/ now holds seven real response bodies captured 2026-09-02, and every model has a test that decodes one. A shape change now fails a test instead of reaching a consumer.

Verification

Live, against the real API, with this branch:

getEventTeams(2025cabe): 55 rows
  #1/55 254 "The Cheesy Poofs" 14-0 epa=91.91 auto=21.08 teleop=60.24 endgame=10.59
  #2/55 8033 "Highlander Robotics" 13-3 epa=77.26 auto=21.09 teleop=48.17 endgame=8.0
getTeamEvents(254, 2025): 3 rows
  2025 2025cabe "East Bay Regional" 14-0 rank=1 epa=91.91
  2025 2025mil "Milstein Division" 13-5 rank=4 epa=92.77
getTeamYears(254): 23 seasons, newest first
  2026 "The Cheesy Poofs" 65-6 epa=327.82 unitless=2257.0 norm=1950.0 rank=2/3724
  2025 "The Cheesy Poofs" 42-7 epa=92.77 unitless=1942.0 norm=1840.0 rank=17/3690
  oldest: 2002 epa=16.6 auto=null
getEvent: 2025cabe "East Bay Regional" week=6
getEventMatches: 118, first=Q1 red=[8033, 4159, 5940]

dart format, dart analyze and dart test (38 tests) all pass.

Breaking

Consumers rename four field reads: totalPointsMean to totalPoints, and the same for auto/teleop/endgame. Nothing else in the public API moved. Code reading only record, rank or numTeams needs no edit, though it was reading zeros before this.

No cache migration, deliberately. An on-device last-good cache (#512) cannot hold team-event data written by an earlier version: the cache writer runs only after a successful decode, decoding threw on every live response, and every release of this package (0.1.0 on 2026-08-05 onward) shipped inside the outage.

An earlier revision of this branch carried a partial {mean, sd} fallback for total_points. It is gone as of c8fa0a5, because it covered the EPA total and not the record or the breakdown, so a legacy record would still have decoded to zeroed wins and null ranks. See the review thread below.

Closes #9.

Noticed, not fixed

  • A team number of 100000 or more is rejected with HTTP 422, which _get turns into a thrown StatboticsApiException. That is correct (it is a malformed request), but the old doc comments claimed unknown teams come back as 404. They actually answer 200 with []. Corrected both comments rather than the behavior.
  • /v3/match/{key} answers 500 with {} for a key Statbotics does not have, where every list endpoint answers 200 with []. _get treats 5xx as transient and retries three times before throwing, so a single missing match key costs three requests and a backoff. No method in this client calls that endpoint yet, so nothing is affected today, but a getMatch would want to special-case it.
  • epa.stats (start, mean, max, pre_champs) and epa.ranks.country/state/district are decoded by nothing. They are the natural inputs for a "how did they get here" narrative, so a consumer that wants them will need another field pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added getTeamYears(team) to retrieve a team’s season history, newest first.
    • Added team-season details, including EPA metrics, rankings, and win/loss/tie records.
    • Added support for the released Statbotics v3 response format, including per-phase EPA values.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected team event record and EPA data decoding for the current API.
    • Preserved compatibility with older cached EPA data.
  • Documentation

    • Documented season comparisons using unitless or normalized EPA values.
    • Clarified API response behavior and model data fields.

getEventTeams threw a TypeError on every real response: StatboticsEpa read
epa.total_points as a {mean, sd} object when the API sends a bare number, and
StatboticsTeamEvent read wins/rank as top-level fields when they live under
record.total and record.qual.

Rename the EPA fields to match the API, add unitless and norm, and drop
totalPointsSd, which the API no longer reports. Add getTeamYears and
StatboticsTeamYear for season-over-season history, completing issue #9.

Model tests now assert against captured live bodies in test/fixtures/, so a
shape change fails a test instead of reaching a consumer. The hand-written
maps agreed with the models rather than the API, which is how this survived.
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The client now supports the Statbotics v3 API shape, adds getTeamYears, introduces StatboticsTeamYear, preserves legacy EPA cache decoding, and validates models with captured live response fixtures. Documentation and package version metadata now describe the 0.4.0 API changes.

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Statbotics v3 API support

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API methods and response models
lib/src/statbotics_client.dart, lib/src/statbotics_models.dart
Adds getTeamYears and StatboticsTeamYear. Updates EPA fields, nested team-event records, serialization, and legacy cache decoding.
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test/statbotics_client_test.dart, test/fixtures/*
Updates mock payloads and adds captured v3 responses for model decoding, round-trips, nullable breakdowns, and legacy EPA data.
Release metadata and usage documentation
pubspec.yaml, CHANGELOG.md, README.md
Releases version 0.4.0 and documents the new endpoint, field changes, response shapes, and fixture tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2a0c9

The PR fixes live API decoding and adds historical team data, but upgrading existing cached responses can silently reset team records and ranking data while cached phase EPA values may disappear. Merge readiness is moderate until legacy fallbacks and regression tests are added.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies the coding objectives in issue #9. It adds getTeamYears(int team), introduces StatboticsTeamYear, applies a limit of 100, sorts seasons newest first, and verifies live response sh…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #9 and the stated PR objectives. The model corrections, cache compatibility, fixtures, tests, documentation, changelog, and version bump support the API update and rele…
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The PR satisfies the coding objectives in issue #9. It adds getTeamYears(int team), introduces StatboticsTeamYear, applies a limit of 100, sorts seasons newest first, and verifies live response shapes with fixtures and tests. The context states that getTeamEvents(team, {year}) was already merged and is documented in this release.

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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 39-41: Update the CHANGELOG migration statement to acknowledge the
new public getTeamYears method, StatboticsTeamYear model, and getTeamEvents
addition, and replace “Nothing else in the public API changed” with wording that
accurately states no other existing call sites require migration.

In `@lib/src/statbotics_client.dart`:
- Around line 75-76: Update the documentation near the event and season response
descriptions to clearly state that when Statbotics has no events or seasons for
a team, the endpoint returns HTTP 200 with an empty list. Replace the incomplete
“A team Statbotics...” wording while preserving the unknown-team behavior and
existing API details.

In `@lib/src/statbotics_models.dart`:
- Around line 274-275: Update the StatboticsTeamEvent cache decoding near the
total and qual record extraction to fall back to the original JSON record when
nested total or qual maps are absent, preserving legacy flat wins, losses, ties,
rank, and num_teams values. Add a cache-upgrade test covering the former flat
record shape and verifying those values are restored.
- Around line 215-217: Update the EPA parsing that assigns autoPoints,
teleopPoints, and endgamePoints to use each breakdown value when present,
falling back to the corresponding top-level EPA key when absent. Add a
legacy-cache test covering all three phase values and verifying they remain
populated.

In `@pubspec.yaml`:
- Line 3: Before publishing, create and push the v0.4.0 release tag and matching
GitHub release for the version declared in pubspec.yaml, then update the
consuming app’s dependency pin to reference v0.4.0.

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The partial {mean, sd} fallback covered total_points but not the record or
the per-phase breakdown, so a legacy cache would still have decoded to zeroed
wins and null ranks. Completing it would guard a state that cannot exist: the
cache writer requires a successful decode, decoding threw on every live
response, and every release shipped inside the outage. Removed rather than
finished, with the reasoning in the changelog.
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On the moderate merge risk, specifically "upgrading existing cached responses can silently reset team records and ranking data while cached phase EPA values may disappear": correct about the code as it stood, and it caught a real inconsistency. The {mean, sd} fallback covered epa.total_points and nothing else, so a legacy record would still have decoded to wins: 0 and rank: null from the missing record object, and to null per-phase values from the missing breakdown. A partial migration is worse than none, because it reads as if the case is handled.

I removed it rather than completing it, because the state it guards cannot occur:

  1. The cache writer only runs after a successful decode. Decoding threw a TypeError on every live /team_events response, so it never reached the write.
  2. Every release of this package shipped inside the outage. 0.1.0 was 2026-08-05; the API went to 500s on 2026-06-15 and came back around 2026-09-02. No version of this client has ever decoded a live team-event body.
  3. In the consuming app, the cache layer was added 2026-07-09, also inside the outage, and it already treats a decode miss as no cache at all: catch (_) { return null; } with the comment "An unreadable cache record is no cache at all."

So the migration path would have been ten lines defending an unreachable state, and justifying it needed a paragraph, which is the signal that the code is wrong rather than the comment missing. The reasoning is in the changelog under 0.4.0 where the history belongs.

Two things I could not establish, stated as unknowns rather than glossed: whether the API changed shape during the outage or the client was wrong from the start. The app's inline predecessor used the same {mean, sd} shape from 2026-05-24, three weeks before the outage, and prematch was in use then, which is weak evidence the old shape was once real. It does not change the fix either way.

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isNotNull only catches a field decoding to null. A field read from the wrong
but still populated place passes it, which is half the bug class these
fixtures exist for. Pinning the values immediately caught that the raw
/team_events body is not rank-ordered, so row 0 is team 199, not the rank-1
team getEventTeams sorts to the front.
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Two review findings addressed in 4f24898.

The backward-compat claim in the PR body was false. Correct catch. The {mean, sd} fallback existed in 2a0c9c9 and I removed it in c8fa0a5 after the earlier review, but never updated the PR description, so it kept promising behavior the code no longer had. Feeding the 0.3.1 cache shape in throws exactly as reported. The CHANGELOG was already updated in that commit and says "No cache migration, deliberately" with the reasoning; only the PR body was stale. Rewritten.

The removal itself stands, for the reason in the previous comment: the cache writer runs only after a successful decode, decoding threw on every live response, and every release shipped inside the outage, so no consumer holds an old-shape team-event record.

The isNotNull assertions were weak, and tightening them found a bug in my own test. isNotNull catches a field decoding to null but not one read from the wrong but still populated place, which is half the bug class these fixtures exist for. Pinned to the captured values instead, and that immediately failed: I had asserted team 254 with rank 1 and EPA 91.91 for row 0 of team_events_by_event, because I was thinking of getEventTeams' output. The raw body is not rank-ordered, so row 0 is team 199, rank 8, EPA 25.32. The sort is applied by the client, not the API. Fixed, with a note in the test so the next person does not assume ordering either.

Also corrected the test count in the PR body: 38, not 39.

dart format, dart analyze and dart test (38 tests) pass on 4f24898.

Not changed, and why: the round-trip tests were already pinning exact values, so the isNotNull weakness was narrower than it looked. Tightened anyway, since the cost was a few lines and it turned up a real error.

The migration note claimed nothing else in the public API changed, which
omitted getTeamYears, StatboticsTeamYear, getTeamEvents, unitless and norm.
Additive surface still belongs in a migration note, if only to say no caller
has to adopt it. Also reworded two sentences that had a team answering a
request rather than the endpoint.
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Five review comments, worked through in 3bc4850. Two fixed, two declined with reasons, one is a release step rather than a code change.

Fixed: the migration note omitted the additive surface. It said "Nothing else in the public API changed", which is wrong: this release adds getTeamYears, StatboticsTeamYear, getTeamEvents, unitless and norm. Rewritten to separate the two things a reader needs, what forces an edit (rename four EPA reads, drop totalPointsSd) and what is new surface nobody has to adopt.

Fixed: two doc sentences had a team answering a request. "A team Statbotics has no events for answers 200 with []" put the team in the endpoint's place. Reworded both, on getTeamEvents and getTeamYears, keeping the unknown-team and HTTP 422 details.

Declined: restore a flat-record fallback in StatboticsTeamEvent.fromJson, and top-level EPA phase fallbacks in StatboticsEpa.fromJson.

Both ask for the legacy cache-migration path this branch deliberately removed in c8fa0a5, and I am declining on the same grounds, because no consumer can hold a record in the old shape:

  1. The cache writer only runs after a successful decode. Decoding threw a TypeError on every live /team_events response, so it never reached a write.
  2. Every release of this package shipped inside the outage window. 0.1.0 was 2026-08-05; the API answered 500 on every data endpoint from 2026-06-15 until about 2026-09-02. No version has ever decoded a live team-event body.
  3. In the consuming app, the cache layer landed 2026-07-09, also inside the outage, and already treats a decode miss as no cache: catch (_) { return null; }.

A fallback plus its test would be code and coverage for a state that cannot be reached, and the previous revision showed the practical cost of a half-done version: it covered total_points and not the record, so a legacy row would still have decoded to zeroed wins while reading as handled. If evidence turns up that an old-shape cache exists somewhere, this is worth revisiting, and the changelog records the reasoning so that is a short conversation rather than an excavation.

Not a code change: tag v0.4.0 and bump the consuming app. That is the plan and the order it happens in. This repo's release protocol is merge, then tag the merge commit on main, then gh release create --verify-tag, then bump the app's ref: in a separate PR. The app branch is already staged with the four renames and passing 1814 tests against this commit; its pin moves from the commit SHA to v0.4.0 before it opens.

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