NFL 2006 Half Time Lines

MonkeyF0cker · 09-28-12, 11:08 PM

Use a line service archive.

Don Best
Sports Options

mathdotcom · 09-29-12, 12:50 PM

Does SportsOptions have an easy way of exporting line histories? By easy I mean other than writing a program to extract it yourself.

jgilmartin · 09-29-12, 01:56 PM

<div>From what I've seen, no, you have to actually go through one day at a time, copy and paste it. Furthermore, when I paste it into Excel, it shows up as one field per line, like:</div><div><br></div><div>Cincinnati / Pittsburgh</div><div>09/28/12 06:04:06pm</div><div>901</div><div>Cincinnati</div><div>-111</div><div>Pittsburgh</div><div>+101</div><div>09/28/12 10:07:01am</div><div>901</div><div>Cincinnati</div><div>-129</div><div>Pittsburgh</div><div>+117</div><div><br></div><div>You could always write a script that converts a certain number of line breaks to commas (and then skips one, so that each game will be on one line of a CSV file), but the fact that you first have to manually select each day and THEN parse it yourself is beyond annoying given that SO is a commercial product.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like SO only goes back to 2007 for NFL 2H. OP, try Don Best.</div>

MonkeyF0cker · 09-29-12, 03:37 PM

People actually try to do it manually?

Ugh.

jgilmartin · 09-29-12, 06:58 PM

Well, exactly. It would be incredibly tedious. As they are charging people for it, it would be reasonable for them to have a CSV export feature where you could select date range, sportsbook, sport, line type, etc.

A couple of years ago you could get a season's worth of data from DB (without writing a scraper) in a couple of minutes. As they just used regular HTML tables you could paste the entire table of data into Excel and you were done. I don't know if they still have it set up this way as I ended up just writing my own scraper (not from DB, from the actual books) anyway.

MonkeyF0cker · 09-29-12, 08:01 PM

DB has some countermeasures for scraping their archives now.