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dazbradbury on March 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: ESPN Developer Center

Thanks for the sources, will look into them. OddsMiner could be useful.

My first reaction was to scrape data, but as it's for a fantasy league, which runs for at least an entire season, there is a good chance the scraper will break a few times during the season, potentially requiring a re-write. This isn't ideal if on the week it breaks I don't have time to update the code.

recroad on March 6, 2012 | [–]

I scrape ESPN data for this tool:

http://recaps.raptorsrepublic.com/

Generates recaps/box-scores that are used by....yup, ESPN TrueHoop bloggers.

pavel_lishin on March 5, 2012 | [–]

What about outsourcing it? Perhaps using MechanicalTurk to have people enter game data.

It'll cost you some money, but depending on how much you value your time, it could still be a bargain.

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