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Question about run locations

kpelechrinis opened this issue · 1 comments

kpelechrinis commented

Great package! Thanks for putting this together.

I had a question in case I have missed it. Is there information for the location/gap of the run? Based on the text description most probably not but I was wondering whether this is something possible with the raw data scraped.

meysubb commented

Hey @kpelechrinis. I wish we had this data. I don't think this is currently possible given the data and the quality for CFB.

I know that in nflscrapR, with rushing plays they are provided context of which GAP the run goes through. Another option would be to do string parsing. But I'm not sure there is enough information in the play description, at the moment, to even do string parsing and get run locations. (Will double check this though).

I'll definitely keep this on the radar to see if its possible in the future.