WNBA data

[tarrazu]

Has anyone done work with WNBA data or have a better knowledge of websites? They updated (terribly) the wnba.com website this past offseason, but keep running into issues. Using this game for all my examples: http://www.wnba.com/game/20150616/MINLAS/

Here are sample URLs for the various WNBA underlying XML files:
boxscore: http://data.wnba.com/data/5s/xml/wnbaco ... xscore.xml
shotchart: http://data.wnba.com/data/5s/xml/wnbaco ... rt_all.xml
pbp: http://data.wnba.com/data/5s/xml/wnbaco ... bp_all.xml

Appears they no longer are updating these as of June 19th games (last boxscore was June 16th). Not sure if it has anything to do with how the new site updates but if you go to the old site using this origin url address: http://origin.wnba.com/gameline/20150616/ they have results here till the 6/16 but not on 6/19.

What does appear to be new is that the boxscores have JSON files, done by quarter though:
http://data.wnba.com/data/10s/v2015/jso ... 1_pbp.json

Looking for any ideas on how to reverse engineering any of these URLs that might have changed, or someone with more knowledge of websites might be able to see what is going on.

[Crow]

Kevin Pelton has a lot of WNBA experience. You are interested in current daily data but Basketball-Reference's historical data might have something more than the direct WNBA stats. Have you looked around swishappeal.com? I recall there were some private databases years ago when I briefly paid some attention to that league.

[tarrazu]

Thanks, thats a good person to reach out to. Might also be a matter of finding someone who works at the league office.

[Crow]

Q McCall was pretty big into WNBA at one time. https://www.blogger.com/profile/17647980606438089952

There was a Storm fan blog big into stats for awhile too.
http://www.stormdefense.blogspot.com/?m=1

And there is this active forum http://boards.rebkell.net/viewforum.php ... 2564e54f97 If you haven't gone there yet.


Is your interest love of the game, betting or both?

[Crow]

This guy is the right guy for WNBA data or data acquisition questions. https://mobile.twitter.com/octonion Did some analysis for a team until they lost interest.

[tarrazu]

Looks like they just got rid of the XML files for good and I'll just re-write everything using the JSON data.