Client game.Players error that I can't figure out

[PR_0B (十 盛大)]

I’m making a custom playerlist, and I’m getting an error on the client whenever someone leaves:

But the confusing part is this other player has nothing to do with what’s being referenced. It should only
concern the player referenced in the frame. I even added a check to make sure the “phantom player” wasn’t nil when they leave but it didn’t help.

Also, the code works completely fine upon a player joining and just while playing. Bizarrely, the error doesn’t even break the loop even though I didn’t make it a pcall or anything.

Here’s the code (note I’ve cut out all irrelevant portions):

local playerName = script.Parent.Name -- this is a textlabel where the name is the same as the player being referenced

local displayName = script.Parent.displayName --textlabel

while true do
	if script.Parent.Parent.Visible == true then
		if game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName) then --error occurs here
			displayName.Text = " "..game.Players:FindFirstChild(playerName).DisplayName
            --more various information goes here (reason for it being in a loop)
		end
	end
	task.wait()
end

[SeargentAUS (Seargent)]

Can you please just double check that that is indeed the relevant script and code that is erroring? That error shouldn’t be occuring at all based on the code provided.

[PR_0B (十 盛大)]

Right, it is the relevant script and code that is erroring. That’s why I’m so confused.

You can see in the error that dockedPlayerList.playerlist.PR_0B is the textlabel where the name is the same as the target

[1Minecraft0954]

Am I right in assuming that this is a local script stored under a UI?

If you want and don’t mind sharing the rest of your code, it might be easier to diagnose the issue.

[PR_0B (十 盛大)]

Solution: In the loop I checked to see if the player had any descendants before continuing in the loop. No idea why it fixed but it did.