Aggregate stats > 10 years gives FanGraphs 5xx

[FishOfPitt116]

Observed Behavior

When I try to poll for player stats of > 10 years using batting_stats or pitching_stats APIs, for instance with the following call:

raw_accumulated_batting_stats = batting_stats(2008, 2019, ind=0)

I see a FanGraphs 5xx:

requests.exceptions.HTTPError: Error accessing 'https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders-legacy.aspx'. Received status code 500

Looking at that link and aggregating for stats > 10 years (from 2008-2019 for instance, or 2009-2020), FanGraphs throws a 5xx. This seems like a limitation of FanGraphs rather than this API.

Expected Behavior

One of the following

• Fail gracefully in this scenario (potentially suggest that stats aggregated over 10+ years are not supported)
• Make multiple calls to FanGraphs for stats < 10 years and manually aggregate the data

[MancusoM]

Hey - I've taken a look at this. PyBaseball was initially built in 2019ish & FG changed the backend html in 2023: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/our-leaderboards-are-going-to-change/

I think bugs of this ilk are going to continue to be found until #398 is reviewed and merged

[MancusoM]

Following up on this, Fangraphs' new limitations forbid data retrieval of >10 seasons if the user is not logged in

On a browser I'm not logged into FG, i get this warning

You must be must be a Registered User and signed in to query more than 10 years of data. You are currently viewing previously cached data.