Research player discovery and ingestion strategy

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Goal

Define the smallest practical player-data ingestion model before building Player analytics.

Questions

• How should players be discovered for a season?
• Which stats can be retrieved in bulk vs per player?
• What request volume does one season require?
• How should trades/team stints be represented?
• Do we need season totals, game logs, or both for the first Player views?
• What should player-ingestion completeness mean?

Constraints

• Browser remains DB-only
• Prefer explicit/idempotent ingestion
• Avoid N+1 player requests when bulk endpoints exist
• Do not design the schema around a Player chart until the required data grain is known

Completion

Document the recommended discovery path, request profile, persistence grain, and first-step ingestion strategy.