Downloading NCAA boxscores for Excel

[Lopaka]

I would like to have my own database for every FBS college football game. I haven't found a good way to download NCAA boxscores into excel on a Windows platform. Does anyone know a good site to do this from? Or any tricks of the trade. I am not especially computer savvy, yet I am not a moron either, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pedro803]

Hey, welcome -- I've been trying to get the same thing going for a while, haven't put it together completely -- I have a severe time shortage and keep get getting knocked off task. But I believe the info we need is right here in this forum in some recent posts

http://forum.sbrforum.com/handicapper-think-tank/415633-introduction-research-p3.html

this is the sticky thread "introduction to research" about halfway down the third page UVA3021 starts giving some information about using excel to scrape data off the internet

also I found this thread helpful

http://forum.sbrforum.com/handicapper-think-tank/657853-excel-web-query-based-off-cell-contents.html

good luck!

[Lopaka]

thanks a lot man!

[bookie]

Would you scrape into Access the same way you would into Excel?

[pedro803]

I don't know the answer to that bookie, but at the very least I think it would be easy to import data into access once you had it in excel

[arwar]

i am freed up now and am working on this for IrishTim and a couple of others. PM me if you want into the loop.