An introduction to research

Should offer apprenticeships for % of your pupils winnings or something.

Sorry but I'm very new to how these systems work. Do your systems weigh for different variables and spit out a point spread, that you then compare against Vegas' line?

thanks man excellent post

Wow ... great post. Thanks to whoever stickied this.

EDIT: Oh ... and of course ... thank you to lJump12 for the great writeup.

Would anyone be interested in a basic sports analytics book that is based on R or Python?

I would be interested in any literature that will help me get better and specifically with data scraping and model building. I'm guessing there are many others that would as well.

Hello all

I am willing to learn and master how to program. I am going to first admit I really have no idea even the littlest bit on how to program. Is there any info or classes to introduce this??

All Help is greatly appreciated

Not trying to be a jerk, but did you even read this thread? Start at page 1 and make an attempt. The links that were posted (by Inspirited, I believe) in a previous thread you started will also be very helpful. Ask specific questions when you run into problems.

Or, if you're looking for classroom instruction, take (or audit) a course at a community college. Good luck.

thanks for the info will read this in my spare time.

Hi

Im after Rugby Union or Rugby League data ?

Interesting thread. I have been very successful building systems in excel but getting the raw data has always been the primary sticking point. I am going to have to look into some of these scraping methods. Thanks to everyone who posted!

Originally Posted by bobbydrake

Simple Perl Web Parser Script
I don't mean any disrespect toward the original poster's preferred programming language. This is just another method. We all need options in life.
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#! /usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

use LWP::Simple;

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

use HTML::FormatText;

$URL = get("http://www.websiteyouwanttoparse.com");

$Format = HTML::FormatText->new;

$TreeBuilder = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;

$TreeBuilder->parse($URL);

$Parsed = $Format->format($TreeBuilder);

print "$Parsed";
open(FILE, ">file.txt");
print FILE "$Parsed";
close(File);

exit;
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Things you need to edit:
$URL = get("http://www.websiteyouwanttoparse.com");
Change the website name to a website you want to parse. If you know a little perl, those quotations have to be included.

and also edit
open(FILE, ">file.txt");
Change file.txt to a file name of your choice. Remember to change this every time you parse a new website or you'll have this program delete all the info on that file from a previous save.

This is my opinion. I take no responsibility for your actions. This is only for educational purposes.

Forgive my ignorance...... but how would I actually utilize this script? Do I upload to a server cgibin and then go to the page? I mean how do I get this script to run?

thank you for doing this.

don't waste your time research something else, but not stats

Just came across this..can anyone point out any other valuable threads like this one.