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dmolition, most sites are NOT OK with scraping due to copyright and not a few will actively block you. And it seems that even those who tolerate it change formats so often that you are always in...

OK, whats keeping the masses from reading this post?

2-3% is currently too high a number, pros are leaving the biz because it has become much less profitable due to lack of square money to inflate...

Everything you think might be relevant and maybe even some that might not. Then test them against the lines you scrape. These things can get very large. No one said this is easy.

Building fully checked out dbs with all the conditionals (everything that is knowable about a game/team) is damn difficult. Once you have that, model building is relatively easy, and certainly more...

if it were easy, we'd all be swilling Mai-tais with the sports groupies in the Bellagio penthouse like Monkey. Instead we seek a zen-like oneness with our data bases ignoring all the worldly...

I'm always struck by how hard it can be to express yourself in print, and the fact that we all use differing terms to label the same items. I'm not a data base guy but data dictionary "thingies" are...

I guess this sort of guess to my point. Granted Python is good for scraping, what does it have for me as far as modeling sports? If I'm a newbie, not wanting to learn two languages to do my...

OK, is there something about Python that makes is easier or more forgiving to program in than other languages?

Why not use some variant of C? or VBA? or Java?

Nicely written article. Are there any subroutine libraries we can obtain so we don't have to write all our typically used routines from scratch?