# GET /v2/fixtures/{id}/best-players

Group: Fixtures

Player of the match and the best-rated players of each side.

Plans: Pro + Business only (other plans get 403 endpoint_not_in_plan).

Note: Available once ratings exist (during or after the match, covered leagues). Before that: 200 with playerOfTheMatch null and empty lists. label says what value measures: rating (football), points (basketball, ice hockey), goals (handball), yards (American football). Basketball: one player a side, with statistics — the player’s line (points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, rating); statistics is null in the other sports.

## Parameters

| Name | In | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | path | yes | our numeric id (positive integer) |

## Response

- `data`: `BestPlayers`
- Objects: BestPlayers (https://sportsapi.app/markdown/en/reference.md#bestplayers)

## Request

cURL:

```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_…" \
    "https://api.sportsapi.app/v2/fixtures/{id}/best-players"
```

TypeScript:

```ts
const { data, meta } = await client.fixtures.bestPlayers(id);
```

Python:

```python
res = client.fixtures.best_players(id)
```

Go:

```go
res, err := client.Fixtures.BestPlayers(ctx, id)
```

CLI:

```bash
$ sportsapi fixtures best-players <id>
```

## Example response

```json
{ "data": { "playerOfTheMatch": { "player": { "id": 4120, "name": "Gabriel Magalhães", … }, "value": 8.0, "label": "rating" },
    "home": [ { "player": { "id": 4188, "name": "Liam Delap", … }, "value": 7.5, "label": "rating" }, … ],
    "away": [ … ] } }

// Basketball:
{ "data": { "playerOfTheMatch": null,
    "home": [ { "player": { "id": 817, "name": "Trae Young", … }, "value": 31, "label": "points",
                "statistics": { "points": 31, "rebounds": 4, "assists": 11, "steals": 2, "blocks": 0, "rating": 8.9 } } ],
    "away": [ … ] } }
```

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Base URL: https://api.sportsapi.app. Send your API key as `Authorization: Bearer <key>` on every /v2 request; keys are created in the dashboard (https://sportsapi.app/dashboard).
HTML: https://sportsapi.app/docs/fixtures/best-players · All docs: https://sportsapi.app/markdown/en/docs.md