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NFL Data (by Lee Sharpe) (by nflverse)
nflscraPy
Datasets and Scraping Functions for NFL Data (by blnkpagelabs)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nfldata
Posts with mentions or reviews of nfldata.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.
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4th Down Study
There's an excellent introduction to how to use R to scrape NFL data here, and a slightly more involved tutorial here. I strongly suggest giving this a go, both for the NFL related data crunching you can do, and for the ideal opportunity to learn a programming language: figuring out how to do something you already want to do.
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Is there a database of NFL box score over the past ten years?
nflverse's games file here: https://github.com/nflverse/nfldata/blob/master/data/games.csv
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Is there anywhere I can find the standard deviation of points and yards for each team in each game?
It's been superseded by nflfastR at least for the play by play stuff. You can also download the data directly, rather than using the scraping functions. https://github.com/nflverse/nfldata
- Can I pull the entire seasons schedule down from somewhere in json, xml, or csv format?
nflscraPy
Posts with mentions or reviews of nflscraPy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Data for players on field play-by-play?
nflscraPy has an extensive library of other NFL Game and Player stats that you can download manually.
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PFR snap count calulation
Gamebook PDF Link: https://static.www.nfl.com/gamecenter/70e5ba20-9aaa-11ed-99e5-6b206f74937e.pdf Playtime Percentage Data (and more) can be downloaded in CSV from nflscraPy as well. https://github.com/blnkpagelabs/nflscraPy https://github.com/blnkpagelabs/nflscraPy/releases/tag/SnapCounts
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Is there a database of NFL box score over the past ten years?
You can use the release files in nflscraPy to download a variety of CSVs that might help:
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nflscraPy – Data Scraper and Datasets for the NFL
Inspired by the creators nflscrapR and nflfastR I decided to construct nflscraPy, a collection of functions to scrape NFL Data from Pro Football Reference – and hopefully an expanding number of data sources/sets.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nfldata and nflscraPy you can also consider the following projects:
nflfastR - A Set of Functions to Efficiently Scrape NFL Play by Play Data
nflfastpy - Python package for loading nflfastR play by play data
nflverse-data - Automated nflverse data repository
nflfastpy - Python package for loading nflfastR play by play data
nflscrapR-data - Data files (.csv) accessed with nflscrapR and summarized at the player-level
nfl_data_py - Python code for working with NFL play by play data.