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
it is
another baseball statistics source that holds historical and current data,
awards, league information, and a blogging feature where users can share
information and insights.
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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