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Real Time Statistics Feeds for Fantasy Sports? 29

Posted by Cliff from the just-for-fun dept.
Anonymous Coward asks: "I want to develop an applet that will track/sort/rank NFL players using real-time statistical feeds from somewhere. Is there a subscription service or site that offers real time NFL statistical feeds (bonus points given if its a free service)?"
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Real Time Statistics Feeds for Fantasy Sports?

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  • Multi-category crap. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    What the fuck does this have to do with enlightenment?

    Or humour, or half the other categories, for that matter?

    • Uh... it's not categori[sz]ed under humo(|u)r....

    • "What the fuck does this have to do with enlightenment?

      Or humour, or half the other categories, for that matter?"

      God hate me for agreeing with an AC, but it does seem to have limited relevance to hardware and enlightenment. Has moderation become a matter of randomly pushing buttons?

      (in anticipation of the irony of being modded down for 'offtopic')
    • Except that it is under Entertainment, not enlightenment... and it isn't under humor (or humour), your comment might be valid.

  • NFL.com (Score:5, Informative)

    by leviramsey ( 248057 ) on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @05:57AM (#6569123) Journal

    The NFL recently set up GSIS [nflgsis.tv], which basically allows you to use a Java applet which receives stats from the league as they're input by the offical scorer at the game (I actually know (through a fan board) the official scorer for the Scottish Claymores). You can use a stripped down version of the applet on NFL.com, and you can register yourself as a member of the media (it's scandalously easy to do, though not as much as when the username/password for NFLMedia.com was media:media) to get a full version (which will give you the full game stats and play-by-play mere minutes after the game is finished in your choice of PDF or XML). Using this, you could reverse-engineer the protocol and write your own server (though I forget whether the NFL claims a copyright on the game statistics they distribute).

    • Ergh...have you checked out the requirements to use the GSIS service? IE on Windows. That's it. Talk about restrictions. I find it kind of ironic too since this is supposedly using a Java applet. Why bother with the applet if you're going to be so restrictive?

      I guess my question would be "is there anything out there for Macs?"

  • Stats, Inc. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Fastball ( 91927 ) on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @05:58AM (#6569124) Journal
    I looked into this a few years ago for college basketball no less. I got a tepid response because I was a "small timer" looking to do some stuff for a fantasy league, but they probably have package that will meet your (obviously NFL football this time of year) fantasy league's needs and costs forty times the worth of your firstborn.

    • We use Stats Inc. for MLB (Baseball) data. I'm working for a medium size company and they were pretty responsive to me. They would create new tables and manipulate the data to whatever specifications I wanted. I'm guessing it's costing us $5k a season for the service... I dunno, I'm just a programmer over here.

  • There was I thinking you meant something like Dragon Racing, or Magic Potion Creating... Can anyone think of a really bizarre made-up sport that might occur in a fantasy world?
  • ..that a free service along this lines doesn't exist [at least not in a legal way]. I've looked into trying to setup a way of getting real-time baseball statistics for free but have been largely stymied. I know from the research that I did last spring on this topic that ESPN runs a realtime stats server that is widely used -- whose name I'm forgetting. (Competing with Stats, Inc.) Help, anyone?

    I'm pretty sure it's fairly expensive, though. Are you sure you need realtime statistics????

  • The one I use (Score:3, Insightful)

    by g1zmo ( 315166 ) on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @12:01PM (#6571227) Homepage
    I have used Real Time Sports [rtsports.com] for fantaysy football, and I think it's one of the best. Near real-time updates from the AP wire, pretty comprehensive league tracking, reasonable fees for the service, etc.

  • Just curious (Score:3, Interesting)

    by angle_slam ( 623817 ) on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @12:11PM (#6571331)
    What kind of league do you run where you need real-time stats? Most leagues I've participated in are done on a weekly basis, and you can't change your team once the game starts. Knowing that Marshall Faulk has scored 3 TDs may be interesting, but pretty much useless if you're trying to manage a team because, if he is not on your starting lineup, he doesn't count.

  • Scrape it (Score:4, Informative)

    by scenic ( 4226 ) * <sujal@s u j a l .net> on Wednesday July 30, 2003 @12:30PM (#6571500) Homepage Journal
    I have to point out another option. While the NFL seems to have a service, other sports don't. I've written a couple of plugins for Watson [karelia.com] on the mac to deal with baseball and football scores [sujal.net]. I essentially scrape the data from ESPN.com and display them. There is nothing stopping you from doing the same thing for "real-time" stats from a game.

    Also on the Mac, I've reversed the gamecast applet protocol that ESPN.com uses and created a Konfabulator [konfabulator.com] widget that does the gamecast. There is NOTHING stopping you from doing the same thing (and it's much easier, assuming you're comfortable around packet sniffers and writting HTTP clients) for yahoo or gamecast.

    Sujal

    • ...and to think I was about to blog this just so you would read this article and reply to it. Nice userid number.
  • In the UK, soccer stats are copyrighted and tightly controlled; as the US appears to have more lawyers per head of the population than is strictly necessary, I'd imagine the same is true for NFL stats.

    You don't want to end up getting sued for your fantasy league - get it legal if you can ! Oh, and prepare to sell some body parts to do it.

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