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Python is great for data scraping. I recommend beautifulsoup if you need a storage library.

Sure. The standard deviation of their yards per play data from each of the games they played against other group-of-5 teams. The point of that was two-fold: 1. It tells me the variation in performance for a team. Such as, are their numbers perhaps skewed by big performances in a couple of games...

Look for a film write up soon. 😉

Absolutely. It’s why I included that they had the second most talent in the conference. When I started this I tried to start with a sound approach rather than starting with a conclusion and working backwards. In other words, I wasn’t trying to make Baker look good- it just happens that’s how...

Adding layers of detail certainly helps the data, but that is an exponentially greater amount of work, so I'm afraid the cost/benefit wasn't there to break down pace/score. I could load the play-by-play data into a GitHub and parse it with a programming language, but I'd still have to adjust for...

Coach Diaz has had quite the week already, from letting go the entire offensive staff, to saying "we didn't work hard enough" right after firing the S & C coach, he walked into an office and demoted his two protege's before the ink was barely dry from their promotions under Richt. Now, Diaz has...