Information is pried out of NFL.com, which has a nice structured system of page creation. URLs are predictably encoded (such as nfl.com/rosters/team or nfl.com/gamecenter/live/nfl_date_away@home) and the presence of player profile links provides for definitive identification when correlating stats.
Automation is done via cron or other job scheduling method.
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Can I use your program or do you know of anything that I can use to feed the stats into my ffl program? Last year I used quickstats.com to get the stats....was like $55/yr and they were great but they only posted the stats on Monday/Tuesday mornings. They provided text files with player/team stats for each week...but I could easily modify this to ready from your file or someone elses.
I've been running my own league on asp (redesigning to php this summer) for a few years now. I've got everything automated except this we're missing a live stats feed. I've heard of people parsing nfl.com to get the live stats. So if you guys have something already written or know of somewhere to get it that would be awesome!!!
Please let me know what you think and if you have any advice.
thanks!
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Of course, you can use the OFFL code. The code is GNU General Public License (GPL), so you can do whatever you want with it, as long as you make the code for your new project freely downloadable (and GNU GPL I believe).
I don't know of any free stats feeds out there, so OFFL is probably a good way to go for your project.
Good luck.
Brad
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Thanks for the info...sent you a pm through sourceforge with a few detailed questions about the stats to see if they are something that will work with my program.
thanks!
jason
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How are you handling NFL statistics gathering and propagation?
Information is pried out of NFL.com, which has a nice structured system of page creation. URLs are predictably encoded (such as nfl.com/rosters/team or nfl.com/gamecenter/live/nfl_date_away@home) and the presence of player profile links provides for definitive identification when correlating stats.
Automation is done via cron or other job scheduling method.
Hey,
Can I use your program or do you know of anything that I can use to feed the stats into my ffl program? Last year I used quickstats.com to get the stats....was like $55/yr and they were great but they only posted the stats on Monday/Tuesday mornings. They provided text files with player/team stats for each week...but I could easily modify this to ready from your file or someone elses.
I've been running my own league on asp (redesigning to php this summer) for a few years now. I've got everything automated except this we're missing a live stats feed. I've heard of people parsing nfl.com to get the live stats. So if you guys have something already written or know of somewhere to get it that would be awesome!!!
Please let me know what you think and if you have any advice.
thanks!
Villain189,
Of course, you can use the OFFL code. The code is GNU General Public License (GPL), so you can do whatever you want with it, as long as you make the code for your new project freely downloadable (and GNU GPL I believe).
I don't know of any free stats feeds out there, so OFFL is probably a good way to go for your project.
Good luck.
Brad
Hey Brad,
Thanks for the info...sent you a pm through sourceforge with a few detailed questions about the stats to see if they are something that will work with my program.
thanks!
jason