Who is "the" guy now at Basketball-reference?
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:31 pm
Specifically cbb-ref actually. Is it David Corby?
I'm so close to finishing my data gathering for the draft model (everything else will be easy, it's all set up) - I decided to add '95-96 college player data (by hand) to the model to get a full 19 seasons of college to pro ratings - and I've learned that the data for teams past Mississippi State (alphabetically) are missing all the player stats for that '95-96 season. Of course all other seasons are fine - just that one is messed up.
Anyway, there are always snags - and I don't HAVE to have the data, but as a perfectionist I want all the data I can utilize. I sent a bug fix request, tweeted basketball-reference, and am throwing this out here in case the cbb-ref guy (whoever that is - Neil Paine went on to greener pastures a while back I believe) checks in here. I'm just crossing my fingers it'll be fixed soon so I can feel comfortable I didn't skip any data I could have used.
Of course, I could just ignore 95-96, and use the 18 seasons I already have (w/ no snags the model would be done a day earlier). But, knowing I could use the '96 data and not doing it just bugs me.
I'm so close to finishing my data gathering for the draft model (everything else will be easy, it's all set up) - I decided to add '95-96 college player data (by hand) to the model to get a full 19 seasons of college to pro ratings - and I've learned that the data for teams past Mississippi State (alphabetically) are missing all the player stats for that '95-96 season. Of course all other seasons are fine - just that one is messed up.
Anyway, there are always snags - and I don't HAVE to have the data, but as a perfectionist I want all the data I can utilize. I sent a bug fix request, tweeted basketball-reference, and am throwing this out here in case the cbb-ref guy (whoever that is - Neil Paine went on to greener pastures a while back I believe) checks in here. I'm just crossing my fingers it'll be fixed soon so I can feel comfortable I didn't skip any data I could have used.
Of course, I could just ignore 95-96, and use the 18 seasons I already have (w/ no snags the model would be done a day earlier). But, knowing I could use the '96 data and not doing it just bugs me.