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This is really cool! Does anyone know if there are similar datasets for other sports out there? Even less clean datasets, as long as they have permissive licens

by ntietz 12y ago

This is really cool! Does anyone know if there are similar datasets for other sports out there? Even less clean datasets, as long as they have permissive licensing to allow sanitation and republication.

isuraed 12y ago
I believe ESPN has NBA play by play data.
- ugexe 12y ago
  ESPN is not going to license or allow you republication rights to their data. ESPN data is also extremely difficult to sanitize (play by play does not match up with box scores, is just plain wrong, different formats, terrible html).
  - knowaveragejoe 12y ago
    Which is really a shame since their app offerings are awful.
  - grayclhn 12y ago
    This, this, this. I used their (american) football data for a hobby project and it would take 30 minutes to an hour to clean one week's worth of games. Hypothetically, I found the sporting news to have much cleaner data.
cwyers 12y ago
The gold standard for freely-available sports data is baseball, with the Retrosheet project: http://retrosheet.org/ http://retrosheet.org/ The license on the data is a pretty permissive one, simply requiring attribution of the data to the Retrosheet project. Software to process Retrosheet files is available, under the GPL: http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
- bnycum 12y ago
  I'll add this. Sean Lahman's Database is also widely used. Though it's mainly whole season statistics, not game by game. Along with post-season, all star games, schools, salaries. http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/ http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/ Then of course MLB has a bunch of data here, mainly the PitchF/X data since 2008 is gathered from here. http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/ http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/
  - cwyers 12y ago
    There's several scrapers to parse the MLB XML data, the most popular (I think) is Baseball On A Stick, in Python: http://sourceforge.net/projects/baseballonastic/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/baseballonastic/
  - kunwardeepgill 12y ago
    Thank you for sharing this! I just started looking for MLB Data yesterday. Great timing!
- caseydurfee 12y ago
  Awesome, thanks for this. Do you know if there are any good sources of historical betting line info for baseball? It would be fun to put together a quantopian-type site for sports betting.

by ntietz 12y ago

isuraed 12y ago

I believe ESPN has NBA play by play data.

ugexe 12y ago
ESPN is not going to license or allow you republication rights to their data. ESPN data is also extremely difficult to sanitize (play by play does not match up with box scores, is just plain wrong, different formats, terrible html).
- knowaveragejoe 12y ago
  Which is really a shame since their app offerings are awful.
- grayclhn 12y ago
  This, this, this. I used their (american) football data for a hobby project and it would take 30 minutes to an hour to clean one week's worth of games. Hypothetically, I found the sporting news to have much cleaner data.

cwyers 12y ago

The gold standard for freely-available sports data is baseball, with the Retrosheet project: http://retrosheet.org/ http://retrosheet.org/ The license on the data is a pretty permissive one, simply requiring attribution of the data to the Retrosheet project. Software to process Retrosheet files is available, under the GPL: http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

bnycum 12y ago
I'll add this. Sean Lahman's Database is also widely used. Though it's mainly whole season statistics, not game by game. Along with post-season, all star games, schools, salaries. http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/ http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/ Then of course MLB has a bunch of data here, mainly the PitchF/X data since 2008 is gathered from here. http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/ http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/
- cwyers 12y ago
  There's several scrapers to parse the MLB XML data, the most popular (I think) is Baseball On A Stick, in Python: http://sourceforge.net/projects/baseballonastic/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/baseballonastic/
- kunwardeepgill 12y ago
  Thank you for sharing this! I just started looking for MLB Data yesterday. Great timing!
caseydurfee 12y ago
Awesome, thanks for this. Do you know if there are any good sources of historical betting line info for baseball? It would be fun to put together a quantopian-type site for sports betting.