Could use a little programming Help

To get away from the politic topic here in the lounge.



I've been working on a Master's degree for the past four years (online) and I am getting ready for my final project/Thesis. My advisor has signed off the topic, which is looking at the reliability of college offenses and how that relates to the probability of victory. (Did a trial version of this paper in a class).



I would like some help with extracting information from ESPN's gamecast, so I have a good dataset to work with. The data appears to be stored in XML. The issue for me, is the ability to comb through ESPN's website pulling all the information I need quickly, rather than going through each link by hand to find all the games. Can any one lend me a hand?

I may be able to. What info do you have about where the is stored and what the schema looks like?

What I have for information is what I have been able to gather from looking html files on ESPN's website (hitting F12). The schedule for each is located by team http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/[teamId]/year/[year]. This would give the schedules. Each schedule will have games ids that will link to the gamecast http://espn.go.com/college-football/playbyplay?gameId=[gameid]. This will have the game information. I believe that the play-play information goes back to 2009. I was able to pull all team ids by going through a HTML file. I you are would like, I have those saved in a spreadsheet that I can send you.

send them my way, you can send them to chad [at] cougarcorner [dot] com

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