drew881 wrote:SCassell19 wrote:drew881 wrote:Cool idea, although it will never get as much traffic it deserves unless you have ALL NBA teams. From the way it sounds, you have to manually add each game in from box scores you find online. Is there anyway to automate this process with box scores found online?
If you included all teams with stats for each, you could definitely get a good fan base going, and instead of spending all your time adding stats, you could spend your time writing little pieces about questionable games.
Some I can copy and paste but some has to be manually done. Certain boxscores can be tough to find.
I meant even beyond the ease of copying and pasting...having a program collect the data for you. For instance, how do various website such as Espn.com, Yahoo sports, etc. collect all their data. I doubt it is some dude(s) averaging out stats for every player after every game, but rather they have some sort of computer program sort out all the stats. Again, if you don't have a background in programming (I certainly don't) it would probably be way too hard, but maybe you could find someone who is interested in the topic to help out. With some effort, you could switch your role from compiler, to the more important task of analyzing the statistics.
Somewhere at least on some level at least one person is entering the stats into the computers. Now what sort of XML/RSS feeds and other methods of abstracting those to other websites I'm not sure but someone is indeed manually entering every single stat into at least one computer source. Now if there is a website that allows you to take that from them and feed it into your own website using XML or some other source well that I don't know because I haven't done a bit of programming since I finished getting my college degree in programming and ended up hating it but I would imagine there is something available to get.