NFL Data Scrape & Analysis

Engaging with the Data Science Community

After I scraped and compiled the league data, I posted it on the popular data science website Kaggle and offered a challenge for those that were interested in practicing their data handling skills. I provided a solution notebook as a guide for students who got stuck on the challenges.

Insights from Sports Data

I used the data gathered to answer questions about team performance over the years. I was able to identify trends within the data such as win/loss streaks and differences in home/away games.

Data Collection

The official NFL website provides organized tabular data perfect for data science projects. This was my first experience using the Beautifulsoup library to scrape data. I developed a small script that was able to scrape 20 years worth of league data.

Python

Analytics

Statistics

Data Scraping