============================= NCAA Football Stats Scraper
Author: Meyappan (Edited code by Rodrigo Zamith)
The initial script structure was written by Rodrigo Zamith for NCAA basketball.
I made changes to his script recently when using it for other projects focusing on college baseball and basketball. For some recent projects, I used the exact structure that Rodrigo used to scrape NCAA football data. Lucikly, the NCAA website has the same structure for all sports!
I was interested in figuring out overall team stats, as well as individual game stats and results. The following scripts are included in this repository:
- create_team_mappings.py
- create_schedule_mappings.py
- create_overall_team_stats.py
- ind_game_data.py (stats for individual games)
- ind_game_score.py (score for individual games)
- season_team_data.py (seasonal average stats)
Version: 1.3
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Author: Rodrigo Zamith
Version: 1.1
Usage
First, edit the scraper settings in scrapersettings.py. In particular, be sure to change the two variables at the top, academic_year and year_index, using the information provided in that file. You can also set what kind of data you'd like saved, and where you'd like it saved.
Then, execute either ncaab_stats_scraper.sh or ncaab_stats_scraper.bat, depending on your operating system. Alternatively, you can just execute the python files, preferably in this order:
- create_team_mappings.py
- create_schedule_mappings.py
- create_player_mappings_and_agg_stats.py
- create_ind_stats.py
Requirements
This script requires Python, as well as the urllib2 and BeautifulSoup libraries.
License
This script is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 (see LICENSE file in root folder). TL;DR: feel free to use it commercially, modify it, and distribute it, provided you disclose both the source code and any modifications you make to it.