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August 06, 2008
Stats Available
It appears that most of the visitors to this blog are looking for fantasy football statistics (from previous years). Well, if that's what you're looking for, then you should be able to download them from my university web hosting account:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~haydenth/nfl_2001_2007_aggregate_stats.tar.gz
It's all of the player, game, and individual game result data from 2001-07. It's straight from NFL.com, so take it for what it's worth. It's not nearly as complete as some of the serious data sets out there (but I'm giving it away for free and they're not).
I am going to put up a weekly file, as well for the 2008 season. It will probably be available on Tuesday mornings, so take note. If there's enough demand, I'll make an rss feed for just the files.
It's a .tar.gz file and you can open it with almost any compression program, these days.
Posted by haydenth at August 6, 2008 06:44 PM
Comments
thanks for the file. I got here looking for the weekly data for last year for each player. My league uses a different scoring system so I am trying to piece together performance from last year.
Having a little trouble with your files since lot more info then I need and it over a few files.
Posted by: drfinn@gmail.com at August 7, 2008 11:39 AM
Since some of the data is relational, it helps if you load the data into a database of some kind. If you use MySQL, I can give you a copy of my mysqldump file (shoot me an email).
Posted by: haydenth at August 7, 2008 12:38 PM
Thanks for this! It's a intriguing approach, I'll be checking back for more results!
Could I hit you up for that mysqldump file?
Posted by: petermat@gmail.com at August 8, 2008 10:09 AM
Hi, I stumbled across your site in the process of writing an NFL.com screen-scraper myself, and it looks like you have a pretty darn nice one built already. I've written a hobby fantasy football management/analysis tool, but I've been unsuccessful in finding a way to get the data without hand updating the DB every week. I don't suppose your scraper code is open source eh? If not, I would be very interested in a MYSQL dump or any other nice weekly format that you might provide (RSS feed). Keep up the great work!
Posted by: jaboc83@gmail.com at December 11, 2008 05:22 PM
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