Get the code Was talking with my Aunt about some bracket advice today and realized I should make a quick tutorial for more tech minded people. It’s a pretty reusable approach. Just scrape betting information to make picks. Golf is another good one where this works. In the tutorial I go through: Scraping a website… Read More March Madness Bracket using Betting Futures and Python
Let’s face it. Web scraping can be a bit boring sometimes. The general process is: Find site that has data Inspect element and see where data lives If in html table, write logic to parse table run for one page run on all pages fix minor bugs done Each and every site has little quirks.… Read More How to Turn Web Scraping Into a Computer Vision Problem
This guide is to help you understand where to find data on sports, especially free sports data. Most of it requires coding so I’m working on creating a data scraping guide too. To skip all this work, sign up at Sports Data Direct and let them deal with getting the data for you. MLB Data The MLB… Read More The Guide to Sports Data
Whenever I look for a new data source on the NFL or daily fantasy betting, I find a bunch of sad souls that don’t realize how easy it is to scrape data. People always want excel workbooks that already have all the data they need modeled up and ready to go but unfortunately they have… Read More How to Scrape Historical DraftKings Data in Under 20 Minutes