[BrickShotShawn]

Does anyone have any experience using SPSS to bet on sports, specifically MLB?

The program is extremely powerful, though the learning curve is very steep.

Right now, I am simply looking for a place where I can all sorts of data on all sports. Then I plan to plug it into SPSS and see what I can find. I am by no means an expert on this software, but I am learning it right now.

I mainly have time to work on it during the weekends. I management to scape together some MLB data and I plan to incorporate some of mlb.com gameday data.

Just wondering whether if anyone here has experience or can point me in a direction on where I can find data.

Thanks in advance.

[yak merchant]

Does anyone have any experience using SPSS to bet on sports, specifically MLB?

The program is extremely powerful, though the learning curve is very steep.

Right now, I am simply looking for a place where I can all sorts of data on all sports. Then I plan to plug it into SPSS and see what I can find. I am by no means an expert on this software, but I am learning it right now.

I mainly have time to work on it during the weekends. I management to scape together some MLB data and I plan to incorporate some of mlb.com gameday data.

Just wondering whether if anyone here has experience or can point me in a direction on where I can find data.

Thanks in advance.

I am sort of in the same process, but I am learning R. I looked at other packages including SSPS and matlab. All have strengths and weaknesses. The amount of stuff on http://cran.us.r-project.org and the community made the decision for me to choose R.

[chachi]

R (or S or S-Plus as various articles may refer to it as given that is/was the base language and retail/pay version of the language originally until R came along) had always seemed the most powerful stat language to me, and was what I did most of my work in over the years

[mminkovski]

SPSS is the best for large databases. I use it daily at work for the last 4 years but never actually tried a sports betting model (didn't bother to look for free databases). I could help you building up a prediction model (you'll need at least 5 years of data plugged into it).

[HeeeHAWWWW]

I'm more familiar with matlab, but have also thought SPSS might be very useful for this.

[chachi]

Mea culpa then ... R/S/S+ always seems the best overall for time-series data to me, but maybe I've missed recent developments

[BrickShotShawn]

Thanks for the offer to help mminkovski.

That's part of the problem I am having at the moment. It's difficult for me to find that data. I did find Sean Lahman baseball data. It goes back a long time. I plan to use only 2009-2013. Also hoping to add the gameday data from mlb.com as I found another website that had a tutorial on how to do so.

Right now I am stuck and getting frustration. I do appreciate all the offers to help.

[mminkovski]

I've done a small research. All the good databases are paid.

[BrickShotShawn]

Yeah, I'm not interested in paying for database access. MLB.com has access for free, as does retrosheet so I will likely stick with them. Though, which databases would you recommend?

[yak merchant]

I don't use this as I already built something to parse the game day XML but if I was starting today I would use this to build a database.

http://cpsievert.github.io/pitchRx/

[nash13]

i am a programmer for spss on my daily job, so if you have any questions just message me.