Tuesday, April 2, 2013

WEB DATA SOURCES FOR SPORTS (1)


This article I will share the web data sources of various main sports for people who are interested in getting data from them. As we all know, along with the development of internet technique, there are more and more web data sources than it’s used to be. Many of these data sources originate from their respective sports league’s official governing body, however At this point, there are also a few amount of third-party sources that offer useful data as well. The following are the sources I have gathered:

Baseball
MLB.com
The governing body of Major League Baseball, contains a wealth of sortable data and a variety of colorful and easy to understand graphical depictions of player performance.
Retrosheet.org
Retrosheet.org is a historical game data website with complete and continuous boxscore data since 1952, textual narratives of game play for nearly every major league game of record, player transaction data, standings, umpire information, coaching records, and ejections of players and managers alike.
Baseball-reference.com
baseball1.com
Started in 1995, the Baseball Archive started as a personal data collection and soon grew into an amalgam of multiple baseball data sources that can be freely queried by any user.

Basketball
NBA.com
This data sources ranges from basic statistical rankings by both player and teams, to more sophisticated plus/minus ratings and interactive graphics of player point shooting.
Basketball-reference.com
This site attempts to be comprehensive, well-organized, and responsive to data requests. The basketball data is relatively straight-forward and easy to navigate.

Cricket
Cricinfo.com
ESPN’s cricinfo.com bills itself as the top cricket website that includes cricket news, analysis, historical data as well as real-time matchups.
Howstat.com
Howstat.com is another Cricket data repository with many features. Aside from having historical and real-time data, howstat.com also contains a superb searching and sorting application to make data requests simple and easy to use.

Football
NFL.com
The National Football League, governing body of American football, also keeps data on their official league website of NFL.com. This data is fairly standard, composed of top ranked players, player comparisons, and team statistics.
Pro-football-reference.com
Pro-football-reference.com provides ample statistics, analysis and commentary to hold any football enthusiasts interest. Users can peruse reams of data regarding coaches, the draft, historical boxscores and team rosters over the years, much of which is unavailable through the official league’s website.
AdvancedNFLStats.com
AdvancedNFLStats.com is a more research-driven collection of football enthusiasts that share their insights and passion for the sport. While this website does not contain the usual faire of historical or real-time data, it instead focuses on sabermetric-styled creations such as game excitement rating, comeback expectancy, etc.


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