1. 09-28-12 12:19 PM #1
    Andy Vix
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    NFL 2006 Half Time Lines

    Does anyone have a link to a website which has the 2006 Season's Half Time Point Spreads and Totals?
    I have tried Google and yahoo without any luck.

    Thank you.
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  2. 09-28-12 11:08 PM #2
    MonkeyF0cker
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    Use a line service archive.

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  3. 09-29-12 12:50 PM #3
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    Does SportsOptions have an easy way of exporting line histories? By easy I mean other than writing a program to extract it yourself.
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  4. 09-29-12 01:56 PM #4
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    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:

    Cincinnati / Pittsburgh
    09/28/12 06:04:06pm
    901
    Cincinnati
    -111
    Pittsburgh
    +101
    09/28/12 10:07:01am
    901
    Cincinnati
    -129
    Pittsburgh
    +117

    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.

    It looks like SO only goes back to 2007 for NFL 2H. OP, try Don Best.
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  5. 09-29-12 03:37 PM #5
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    People actually try to do it manually?

    Ugh.
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  6. 09-29-12 06:58 PM #6
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    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.
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  7. 09-29-12 08:01 PM #7
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    DB has some countermeasures for scraping their archives now.
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