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The gold standard for freely-available sports data is baseball, with the Retrosheet project: http://retrosheet.org/ http://retrosheet.org/ The license on the
by 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 agoI'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 agoThere'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 agoThank you for sharing this! I just started looking for MLB Data yesterday. Great timing!
- caseydurfee 12y agoAwesome, 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.