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August 15, 2008
Preseason Week 1 Stats Available and Other File-Related Errata
It's a good thing we have the preseason because I needed some time to test my export routines for 2008. I think I finally got it hashed out. NFL.com didn't change anything but my import routines weren't set up to handle preseason data very well. You can download the new file (in .tar.gz) format below. I am going to post a file after every week this season and it will usually be on Tuesday morning.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~haydenth/2008_PRE1.txt.gz
A couple notes you stat fans should be aware of. First, I modified the file format a bit (the original historical files were broken out between games, players and stats). This is just one file and the player names are included as a row on the table. If I'm missing anything from the file, please let me know and I can include it. Hopefully, the file should be self-explanatory. If you use the R statistical program, you can use the following command to load the weekly data sets. If you've never used R for stats, I highly recommend it.
nfl <- read.csv(file="2008_PRE1.txt",head=TRUE,sep=",")
For those of you who asked me for the mysqldump file, I'm still working on it. I had originally mixed in my database with other files so I've been in the process of breaking out my NFL stats into it's own database. As soon as I get that done, you can bet that I'll upload a file.
Posted by haydenth at August 15, 2008 08:52 PM