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Hmmm, seems to me there's a business opportunity in providing lower cost, more developer friendly sports data. I remember looking into getting access to sports
by cloudkj 16y ago
Hmmm, seems to me there's a business opportunity in providing lower cost, more developer friendly sports data. I remember looking into getting access to sports data since I wanted to do some analytics after I read Moneyball. Old, archived data is easy to come by, but any fresh, real-time data sources seem to have non-trivial costs.
I guess there might be some restrictions on who gets access to the official raw data for various games, depending on the sports league. If the costs for getting that data are high, then the only way to circumvent that would be to collect them yourself. Even then, I don't know if the leagues would come at you hard for gathering data and using team names or player names...
- smackfu 16y agoThe business opportunity is probably just getting big enough to get a buyout offer from one of the bigger dogs.
- kreek 16y agoI don't know about other sports but I have researched this for the Premier League (soccer) and they own the stats lock stock and barrel. Even if you hired a bunch of mechanical turks to watch every game and jot down every shot and tackle the stats still belong to the Premier Leageue because the games are arranged by them. If you list the Premier League schedule on your blog you'll get a cease and desist unless you pay them a fee.
- LargeWu 16y agoAmerican courts have ruled that sports statistics are "pure facts", and therefore not copyrightable. In fact, companies like STATS, Inc. rely on the fact that they are public domain. When you pay STATS, what you are buying is the compilation and quality control they provide.
- notahacker 16y agoUK courts have ruled otherwise, and the FA has a copyright troll that specialises in sending c&d letters to webmasters displaying fixture lists and their webhosts.