Sports Standings & Team Records API (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, EPL)

Get current league standings and team records as clean JSON — no API key, no scraping HTML, no rate-limit headaches. This actor pulls standings from ESPN's public API and normalizes every team into one stable row: wins, losses, win percentage, games behind, playoff seed, points for/against, streak, and the full raw stat set.

Perfect if you searched for a sports standings API, NFL standings API, NBA standings API, or a free ESPN standings API alternative for your app, dashboard, model, or Discord bot.

What it does

• Fetches live standings for one or more leagues in a single run
• Emits one row per team, grouped by conference/division group
• Flattens the most common stats to top-level keys and keeps all raw ESPN stats in a stats dict (so sport-specific stats like soccer points/rank are never lost)
• Runs in seconds; leagues are fetched concurrently with retries — one league failing never kills the run

Supported leagues

Code	League
nfl	NFL (American football)
nba	NBA (basketball)
mlb	MLB (baseball)
nhl	NHL (hockey)
epl	English Premier League (soccer)
wnba	WNBA (basketball)
ncaaf	NCAA college football

Input

All fields optional — running with empty input {} fetches NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL.

{
  "leagues": ["nfl", "nba", "mlb", "nhl"]
}

Output

One dataset row per team. Real example row (NFL):

{
  "league": "nfl",
  "conference": "American Football Conference",
  "team_id": "2",
  "team": "Buffalo Bills",
  "abbreviation": "BUF",
  "wins": 11,
  "losses": 6,
  "ties": 0,
  "win_percent": 0.647,
  "games_behind": 0,
  "playoff_seed": 2,
  "points_for": 451,
  "points_against": 368,
  "point_differential": 83,
  "streak": 3,
  "stats": {
    "wins": 11,
    "losses": 6,
    "ties": 0,
    "winPercent": 0.647,
    "gamesBehind": 0,
    "playoffSeed": 2,
    "pointsFor": 451,
    "pointsAgainst": 368,
    "pointDifferential": 83,
    "differential": 83,
    "streak": 3,
    "divisionWins": 5,
    "divisionLosses": 1
  },
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T13:13:42Z"
}

Notes:

• Flattened keys (wins, losses, win_percent, games_behind, playoff_seed, points_for, points_against, point_differential, streak, ties) appear when the league provides them. Soccer leagues use different stat names (points, rank, gamesPlayed, ...) — always available in the stats dict.
• During the offseason ESPN reports zeroed stats; rows are still emitted for every team.
• fetched_at is the ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of the fetch.

Pricing

Pay per result: you're charged a tiny fee per team standings row pushed to the dataset (e.g. a full NFL run = 32 rows). No subscriptions, no minimums.

Use cases

• Standings widgets for sports sites and fantasy apps
• Betting/analytics models that need up-to-date team records
• Discord/Slack bots posting daily standings
• Data pipelines replacing fragile HTML scrapers

Disclaimer

Unofficial; not affiliated with or endorsed by ESPN. Data comes from ESPN's publicly accessible API and may change without notice.