sports

Sports Stat SQL Queriable DB

Anyone know of a database for player statistics (preferably covering NFL players and preferably free or very cheap) that will let you run SQL Select queries? ...

Does anybody know of a real time sports scores/stats web service?

Does anybody know of a real time sports scores/stats web service? ...

Best Schema to represent NCAA Basketball Bracket

What is the best database schema to represent an NCAA mens basketball bracket? Here is a link if you aren't familiar: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/brackets/viewable_men I can see several different ways you could model this data, with a single table, many tables, hard-coded columns, somewhat dynamic ways, etc. You n...

Where can I find useful item lists (SQL, or plain text) like sports, hobbies, and others?

GeoNames public geographic locations index is a very useful website that I have used to import a list of countries and cities into my web app. Now, are there any other public databases that would provide various useful lists? (Other than Wikipedia) I am looking for a list of sports, hobbies and similar items. ...

Is there any sort of API that'll give me real-time(ish) MLB stats?

I think it'd be fun to build a little mini-fantasy baseball game, but after a bit of Googling, I'm getting the impression that there's no easy and reasonably-priced (or free!) way to get that data. Have any of you done something like this? Should I be thinking about screen-scraping? ...

Golf Stats API providing to the minute updates?

I've been searching for an API that provides hourly/daily updates for golf statistics such as leaderboards and player rankings (free or paid) without much luck. The golf channel has a similar system but it's not exposed in anyway. Any ideas on a good place to look? ...

Round Robin Tournament algorithm in C#

Hi!! I am having some trouble to achieve this little round robin project. What i try to do is to generate a preview calendar of games then I want to output; day 1: Team 1 vs Team 2; Team 3 vs Team 4; Team 5vs Team 6; day 2 Team 1 vs Team 4; Team 6 vs Team 3; Team 2 vs Team 5; till the end of the championship; Here is the code i've ...

Simulating sports matches in online game

Hello! In an online manager game (like Hattrick), I want to simulate matches between two teams. A team consists of 11 players. Every player has a strength value between 1 and 100. I take these strength values of the defensive players for each team and calculate the average. That's the defensive quality of a team. Then I take the streng...

Soccer simulation for a game

Hello! I would like to build a simulation engine which can simulate a soccer (association football) match. It would be cool great if you could help me. What is important to me is to decide which actions happen. The event listeners for each action can be implemented later easily. The function should only simulate the game results and com...

Improving soccer simulation algorithm

Hello! In another question, you helped me to build a simulation algorithm for soccer. I got some very good answers there. Thanks again! Now I've coded this algorithm. I would like to improve it and find little mistakes which could be in it. I don't want to discuss how to solve it - as we did in the last question. Now I only want to imp...

Simulating a baseball game

It seems that baseball is perhaps the easiest sport to simulate due to its very linear nature. I'm curious as to whether not there is someone out there with some experience in this matter that can advise me as to the best route to go. There are several options, such as simulating each pitch, simulating an at bat as a single event, or s...

Complicated football league Dynamic Ordering in MySQL?

I have a table 'games' for a football league as follows: date home_team_id away_team_id home_score away_score - 1 2 6 21 - 3 1 7 19 I can't figure out how to dynamically generate a list of team ID's ordered by Wins (then...

A sports events & results API?

Anyone knows a sports events & results API. Something that can give me info on teams, venues, matches, players, scorers & results. ...

I want to build a online sports management game where do i start?

I want to build a site similar to Hatrick or soccermanager.com but im not sure where to begin any tips/ help would be great! cheers ...

where do I get cricket data without paying too much money?

Is there any place where I can get cricket data feeds? I just want to build a small site, won't be making any money, so paying hundreds (or thousands) of dollars every month is out of question. ...