Python Sports Analytics Made Simple (Part 2)

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Python Sports Analytics Made Simple (Part 1) — Creating a public sports API

Python Sports Analytics Made Simple (Part 2) — Pull any sports metric in 10 lines of Python

Welcome to this two-part series where I demonstrate how to pull thousands of sports metrics with just a few lines of Python.

In the first part, I detailed the steps I took to create a public API called sportsreference. In this second article, I dive into the installation and usage of the API and demonstrate how easy it can be to pull various sports statistics.

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Setup

Prerequisites

Prior to installing sportsreference, the following prerequisites are required for your development environment:

• Python 2.7 or Python ≥ 3.5
• PIP ≥ 8.1.2

Recommendations

In addition to the requirements above, it is also highly recommended to use a virtualenv for development work to avoid what is affectionately known as “dependency hell”.

Dependency hell is a colloquial term for the…