The Scenario
You are a fantasy sports analyst who covers college football. Your subscriber newsletter runs a pre-draft feature every April: all FBS quarterback season stats ranked by passing yards, with completions, attempts, touchdowns, and interceptions, across every program.
Your editor wants it by Friday. It is Wednesday at noon. The CollegeFootballData.com API returns player stats, but you have never used this particular endpoint and you are not sure whether position filtering works at the query level or whether you have to pull everything and filter on your side.
The bad version:
- You pull the entire player stats dataset — it is huge
- You filter for quarterbacks and realize the position field uses "QB" in some records and "Quarterback" in others
- You spend forty minutes normalizing position names before you can do anything with the data
- You get the Big Ten receivers working for a second feature but realize the endpoint URL is different from what you used for quarterbacks
- The newsletter goes out Friday with last year's data because you ran out of time.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI knows which endpoint covers player season stats and handles position filtering without you having to figure out the field names.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
Fetch 2024 season stats for all FBS quarterbacks and paste them into my "QB Stats 2024" sheet with columns for player, team, completions, attempts, yards, touchdowns, and interceptions, sorted by passing yards descending.
SheetXAI pulls the player stats, filters for quarterbacks, normalizes the position field, and writes the ranked table. You have your newsletter data before dinner.
What You Get
A clean "QB Stats 2024" table, sorted by passing yards descending:
- Player and team — name and program for every qualifying FBS quarterback
- Completions and attempts — for completion percentage calculation
- Yards — the primary sort column
- Touchdowns and interceptions — the efficiency columns your readers want
The table is newsletter-ready. Add a completion percentage column with a formula, pick your top 20, write your analysis. No position name cleanup, no endpoint hunting.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Player stat exports have position and data quality quirks. SheetXAI handles them inline.
When receivers are scattered across position labels
Wide receiver, WR, "Wide Receiver," and "Wideout" may all appear in the position field for the same type of player, making a clean filter difficult.
Pull 2024 season receiving stats for wide receivers in the Big Ten conference and write them into my "Receiver Rankings" sheet sorted by receiving yards. Normalize position labels so WR, Wide Receiver, and Wideout are all treated the same. Flag anyone with more than 10 receiving touchdowns with a star in a new column.
When you want completion percentage and TD/INT ratio calculated
The raw data has counts but not the derived stats your readers care about.
In the "QB Stats 2024" tab, add a column for completion percentage (completions ÷ attempts, rounded to one decimal) and a column for TD/INT ratio (touchdowns ÷ interceptions, or "N/A" if interceptions is zero). Re-sort the table by completion percentage descending.
When you want to filter to qualifying starters only
Your newsletter does not cover backups who threw five passes. You want only quarterbacks with at least 100 pass attempts.
Filter the "QB Stats 2024" tab to quarterbacks with 100 or more pass attempts. Remove the rest. Recalculate the sort by passing yards descending and re-number the rows.
When you want both QB and receiver stats combined for a single conference feature
The Big 12 feature needs the top QBs and top receivers in one table for an offensive firepower breakdown.
Fetch 2024 season stats for all Big 12 quarterbacks — completions, attempts, yards, TDs, INTs — and write them into a "Big 12 Offense" tab. Then fetch 2024 receiving stats for all Big 12 wide receivers and tight ends — receptions, yards, touchdowns — and append them below with a "Position" column added to distinguish QBs from receivers. Sort the full table by yards descending.
The pattern: you name the position group and the conference, SheetXAI handles the endpoint and the filter.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull season stats for any position group across any conference or the full FBS. The CollegeFootballData.com integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For more, see how to export an NFL Draft class with college stats or the CollegeFootballData.com in Google Sheets overview.