Fix player names with * suffix and utf-8 encoding issue for Windows machines
Summary
The relevant changes to the API are around
- Fixing player names in season total tables
- Basketball Reference started adding
*
to the end of player names. The related changes (#176) strip out these*
values
- Fixing a
utf-8
encoding issue for Windows machines (#173) whereCSV
andJSON
files need to have theirencoding
argument specified asutf8
(#180)
There are also changes related to creating an HTTPService
and ParserService
but these should not have any implications on the behavior of the external API.