Search:

I really don't think the discussion we had is too far off topic. The thread is about programmatically scraping data. There really needs to be some concern by those who wish to pursue that venture...

The reason his statement was confusing is because he wasn't using the proper terminology, Wrecktangle. If someone attacks my integrity in here, I'm certainly going to prove my point. If you don't...

Relatively similar? LOL. I hope you're joking.

Some people have only box scores, some have play by play data, some have pitch by pitch data, some people have linked line history tables, some...

If you'd like to concentrate on only one language, I'd honestly go with C#. There are a lot of things that I do with arrays and structs in my models that would be extremely cumbersome and...

It also depends on your environment. .NET won't do you much good in Linux. That said, I use .NET to code the majority of my handicapping apps.

Also, I prefer my efficiency to be on the executable side and not the coding side of my projects. However, for the purposes of this thread, I would agree that Python is far better as a tutorial on a...

It may be slightly faster to code parsing a CSV, but why would you be working much with CSV's anyway? Personally, I hate them. Generally, you'd be scraping directly into a DB of some sort anyway. ...