Introducing NFLGame: Programmatic access to live NFL game statistics
Posted on by Andrew Gallant: BurntSushi
As a programmer and a fantasy football addict, I am embarassed by the means through which we must expend ourselves to get data in a machine readable form. This lack of open source software cripples the community with sub-standard tools, and most importantly, detracts from some really cool and fun things that could be done with easily available statistics. Many tools are either out-dated or broken, or if they work, they are closed source and often cost money.
Yesterday I started work on a new library package that I hope will start to improve this sorry state of affairs.