Do you know, roughly, how many mistakes there are regarding the 'who is on the court' part?nileriver wrote:You can purchase it here:http://downloads.nbastuffer.com/. I will warn you that there are definitely mistakes in the data. My biggest problem with it has been who is on the court. Not sure where else you can get this information without doing web scraping (which I recommend). Hopefully other have more reliable information that you can get.
There are a lot of them. I actually contacted them about all of the errors that I have found as well as recommendations to make the data set richer. They were responsive and have been working on cleaning up and improving the data. The main issue is that (to my knowledge) no publicly available data that includes who is on the court for every play (I believe that nbastuffer uses EPSN's data). I wrote some SQL to identify situations where I "know" that the data of who is on the court is incorrect. I did this by looking for records where the player had an action (rebound, shot, turnover, foul, etc.), but were not listed as being on the court. Since then, I have been working on doing my own web scraping so that I will be in control of all the ETL operations for the play-by-play data.J.E. wrote:Do you know, roughly, how many mistakes there are regarding the 'who is on the court' part?nileriver wrote:You can purchase it here:http://downloads.nbastuffer.com/. I will warn you that there are definitely mistakes in the data. My biggest problem with it has been who is on the court. Not sure where else you can get this information without doing web scraping (which I recommend). Hopefully other have more reliable information that you can get.
Happy to do the web scrapping, but where can we find this information ?Not sure where else you can get this information without doing web scraping (which I recommend).
http://www.apbr.org/metrics/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8481Fablepongiste wrote:Hi.Happy to do the web scrapping, but where can we find this information ?Not sure where else you can get this information without doing web scraping (which I recommend).
I cannot find any play by play providers telling us who is starting each quarter (leaving the court at the end of each quarter).
Without having this info, it looks very difficult to get who is on court for each play.
Ideally I would like to build similar csv files to the ones prodied by basketballvalue,com http://basketballvalue.com/downloads.php
Any ideas how to get something similar ?
For b-baller23 these files can help but there is no recent history ...
You can find that information on B-R. Here is that information for 2014b-baller23 wrote: I'm sorry, I should have probably been a bit more specific as to what exactly I would need. For example, the information about who is on the court is not important for my study and I'm mainly interested in all the information related to the shot attempts. I don't know if it's possible but I would "only" need to know who attempted a shot, whether it was a make/miss, the shot type, the distance, the remaining time and the game score.
There is an option to convert that data into CSV at the top of the table. As far as downloading, I don't think you can download any data from B-R. You might have ask Neil Paine that since he works at B-R.b-baller23 wrote:Thanks colts, this might be really helpful. Is there a way to download an entire season's worth of data into a single csv file?
The way the information is displayed on basketball reference would be perfect for my work but it would indeed be a bit tedious to download nearly 2,000 pages of data per season (and I'm looking for the data of several seasons). Is this aside from nbastuffer.com the only source you all are aware of or does anyone have some other ideas where I should look for this type of play-by-play data?