Last year a posted a week of my rankings that I have ran for about 20 years now (and correctly picked the BCS national champ in all but 1 year).
Well i went to run out this weekend and Peter Wolfe has not updated his site, which is where i got the data from.
So i spent a few hours making it work with espn (and cleaning up some code), but it's slow. I have to hit multiple pages and fo more complex finds using beautiful soup. The is very noticeably slower than the regex used to parse Peter Wolfe's site. Also parsing the teams/conference affiliations is a pain because they have the mascots attached.
Does any one know of a better place to get the game results?
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If you're just looking for box scores:
https://masseyratings.com/scores.php?s=cf2024
https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/
https://collegefootballdata.com/boxscore
I did look at sports-reference but they had it by week and it would have similar issues i didn't want to deal with.
The masseyratings is a good looking site but I want a team -> conference link and i dont see him having one other than on his rankings, which can work, I look into it
College football data has some really nice things but from a website the game scores aren't great, however it has an api so i will be looking into this
In the past I'd say making a custom conference lookup util or static dictionary wouldn't be too bad but in todays world it'd be a bit to maintain lol
the college football data api was sooooooo easy, it really simplified my code. I wish i had known about that years ago. But I have seen some differences between the scores with it and ESPN. I do have some issues as Oregon is 8-0 and this says 7-0 so I will look into that.
Edit: simple bug on my part, easy fix --- the get_games api call returns future scheduled games too, which the score is None. I didn't want those so i only added the score "if home_score:" instead of using the date like a sane person and not using future games. The if home score then didnt count shutouts of the home team
edit2: there are so many more things i can do with this api, i will be busy!!!
Collegefootballdata.com?
The word "regex" still makes me break out in hives. I've successfully used it in an actual delivery but 🤢🤢
If I had a nickel for every time I've used a grep -A # piped into another grep in the past week, I'd have almost a dollar.
Parsing data logs, it just doesn't get any better than this.
I won't post the meme, but it really makes me think of:
Person 1: "So you just Google for a living?"
Person 2: "You just insulted my entire profession!
.... but yes"
If you have a reddit account, try subscribing to r/CFBAnalysis. It's basically people asking and answering questions just like this.
This is my only online account
I mean my vt email account is online but when I got it it was a local account to VT when I was there
Oh and because everyone cares Liberty is ranked 114th so it's a good model (just ignore #2)