Optional Prepopulating Through url param

[AkramEld]

Lets say you have a Teams Model with:
name: { type: String, required: true }, playerIds: { type: Array, required: true },

and you use "populate" to prepopulate with the players objects like so
const userRolesSchema = { include: { service: 'api/players', nameAs: 'players', parentField: 'playerIds', childField: '_id', asArray: true } }

Is there a way to pass a parameter to the teams api to not prepopulate it sometimes, lets say "/api/teams?players=no"

Thanks