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Yeah i feel like obtaining historical data will be easy but staying up to date is the real challenge

• abathur 10y ago
  On the upside, the existence of that friction definitely points to a gap where value can be added. Another likely source of friction where you can add value is the work anyone working on multiple information sources (whether this is several databases/apis for one sport, or for different sports altogether) has to do to integrate multiple services and data models. If you can identify some people who are doing that work in the first place, you can probably make a business case for how you can simplify their application and give them a single interface/API for all of that data. I'll also echo the suggestion from @scottrblock on the potential usefulness of various metadata. If all you have are game statistics, while people can obviously do lots of novel analysis on the data, it's fairly obvious what the "use" is. With a wide spectrum of metadata, you might end up simultaneously creating something of value to someone analyzing the effect of weather on different sports/teams/players and for hotel chains trying to set prices based on the historical attendance for all sporting events within 50 miles. If you could create a revenue model that supports delivering the service both to continual high-volume business users and to users just using the API occasionally to support an analysis project, perhaps it's possible to pass revenue downstream to other data sources. Granted, this adds a number of administrative problems (people submitting data collected/generated/sold by other parties as their own to collect revenue on it; getting low-quality/falsified data; etc.) * I wasn't aware of stattleship or sportsradar before this thread; no idea how well they cover these.