computoman

Whether or not the Dallas Cowboys are America's favorite team any more is not important. What the did do was bring electronic computing to football and spawned the computers in other sports. Now if you watch any major football game you can see electronic tablets at the  benches of many team. not only for statistics, but to replace the photos normally strewn all over the sidelines. Prior to joining the Cowboys, Tex Schramm had worked as a CBS Sports executive, helping broadcast the Winter Olympics, where he became aware of and intrigued by the use of computers. He decided that computers could help the Cowboys choose players from the draft, including young athletes other clubs might miss. "I decided ... that I would have to find an objective method of deciding on the worth of a football player ... I thought we had to find a way to judge players without emotion,” Schramm told Sports Illustrated in 1968. “We used computers to figure scores and standings when I wa...

Went to run the nfl score scraper and notice that if did not run anymore.   Found a web page that pretty much does it for you. So you can get the scores from the command line.  links2 -dump "http://scoresline.com/scores.asp?Date=9/13/2015&F=NFL"

Football time again. Here is a quick script to get some NFL scores. You will have to read the script to set the values for what part of the season and what week to show. I did not put a lot of time into formatting as it is easy for me to read as is.  The script might be use for other sports depending on the format. ------------------------------------------------ nfl data for phase = 1 week = 3 season = 2014 ------------------------------------------------        Home           Score              Away Thursday, August 14 - (Preseason) Jacksonville 19 - 20 Chicago Final Friday, August 15 - (Preseason) Philadelphia 35 - 42 New England Final Tennessee 24 - 31 New Orleans Final Detroit 26 - 27 Oakland Final San Diego 14 - 41 Seattle Final Saturday, August 16 - (Preseason) Green Bay 21 - 7 St. Louis Final NY Jets 25 - 17 ...

Statistics are so interesting. I was curious about the NFL draft. Thinking how could I look at the results of the draft. Voila a spreadsheet of course. A spreadsheet is sometimes known as a flat file and looks much like an accountant's worksheet. That is it has no relation to any other file in its most rudimentary form. For our purposes that would be just fine.The original list was in the order of when someone was drafted. So I gathered the data from the draft with everything in corresponding columns. That makes sense. Then I thought what can I do. Arranging or sorting a list is one of the pluses of the spreadsheet. Let's see you have the team name, draftee and his position, plus some other vital data. Posed myself a question that maybe opposing teams might ask. The teams obviously drafted where they thought they might need help. Lets do a sort and see who needs what. Instructions to do a sort for your spreadsheet may vary. Noticed that there was only one punter draf...

----------------------------------------------------------------- Simple bash scripts for NFL football. ------------------------------------------------ nfl data for phase = 2 week = 14 season = 2013 ------------------------------------------------ Home           Score              Away Thursday, December 5 Houston 20 - 27 Jacksonville Final Sunday, December 8 Minnesota 26 - 29 Baltimore Final Kansas City 45 - 10 Washington Final Buffalo 6 - 27 Tampa Bay Final Miami 34 - 28 Pittsburgh Final Detroit 20 - 34 Philadelphia Final Oakland 27 - 37 NY Jets Final Cleveland 26 - 27 New England Final Atlanta 21 - 22 Green Bay Final Indianapolis 28 - 42 Cincinnati Final Tennessee 28 - 51 Denver Final Seattle 17 - 19 San Francisco Final NY Giants 14 - 37 San Diego Final St. Louis 10 - 30 Arizona Final Carolina 13 - 31 New Orleans Final Monday, December 9 Dallas 2...