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Basketball Play-By-Play Database  

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Selected Providers: nitetalk

Budget: $30-250

Created: 11/13/2009 at 12:12 EST

Bid Count: 10

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$ 145

11/16/2009 at 12:12 EST

Project Creator: jpinato
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Description

I would like somebody to write a program that can parse ESPN.com's basketball play-by-play summaries into a database. I am open to parsing other sites (cbs, yahoo, etc) if they are easier to work with - as long as the data quality and data history is the same or better.

I would prefer if the program is written in Java along with SQL Server 2005 (although MySQL is fine as well). C# and Perl are also acceptable, although I would need more help setting those up on my machine.

As far as the database is concerned, I would like to be able to run fairly complex queries on the dataset - the more that can be defined on each play, the better. I put together a spreadsheet that gives you a rough idea of what I'm looking for. I didn't put a lot of thought into it, so feel free to propose a better scehma. I would say that I'm leaning toward a more compact setup as opposed to lots of connecting tables for simple queries.

I would like to be able to calculate +/- stats easily. That is, I'd like to be able to calculate what players are on the floor whenever either team scores. Any schema that makes this easier to do would be ideal. I would like the database to be loaded with stats going back through all years available on ESPN's website.

Here's an example box score :
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=290313027
I've attached an excel document with one version of how one might populate a simple one-table schema.

I'd like this project to be completed by Friday, November 20th.


Additional files submitted:
Basketball+DB+Example.xls

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130

4 days

11-14-2009 09:15 EST

I can do this job for you. See PM for details.

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220

7 days

11-14-2009 03:09 EST

Hi! Please read your PMB.

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150

7 days

11-14-2009 12:34 EST

Quality work. Proven experience.

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190

10 days

11-14-2009 00:53 EST

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please check your PMB

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200

7 days

11-14-2009 12:12 EST

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Hello. I can do what you have specified. I will PM you

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200

7 days

11-13-2009 16:29 EST

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I can do this for you. I use java and mysql az my database.

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3 days

11-15-2009 01:45 EST

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I can do it cheaply, since I need rating

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2 days

11-15-2009 23:37 EST

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Please see PMB for details.

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150

5 days

11-15-2009 04:42 EST

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From what you have mentioned I should be able to do this. I will use Java and MySQL from my side. Also can you provide more information on this.

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11-15-2009 08:32 EST

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Please see my PM.

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