When calling

{{api_url}}/sports/5/teams
the endpoint returns data for 65 ranked teams with various duplicate rankings. An example is 7 ranked Marquette (“team_id”: 1660) which is correct and 7 ranked UCLA (details shown below) which is incorrect:

{
“team_id”: 345,
“name”: “UCLA”,
“mascot”: “Bruins”,
“abbreviation”: “UCLA”,
“ranking”: 7,
“record”: “14-12”,
“conference”: {
“conference_id”: 16,
“division_id”: 2,
“sport_id”: 5,
“name”: “Pac-12 Conference”
},

On top of this, a challenge I’m running into is a lack of “ranking” parameter for teams unless they are ranked. This makes managing/cleanup of now-unranked teams challenging and much more error prone (as shown by the duplicate data detailed above).

Ideally, it would be great if ranking was always returned for every team (null, empty string, etc) but this less critical than the data accuracy mentioned above.