One of the perks of being a coach is sometimes you get to delegate projects that are on your own backlog to the likes of these type of projects. Today is one of those. I am a big Rugby League fan as some of you might know and I regularly collect data on the Super League, which is the Europes premiership Rugby League. However I have always wanted to eventually compare how Super League compares to the National Rugby League (NRL), which is based in Australia and New Zealand, but I have never gotten round to getting the data. So today’s task is to:
- Web scrape the NRL Match Centre games from 2017 through to 2022
- Each person will have 2 home teams they need to collect data for
- For each game they should get the score, play by play commentary and Player Statistics for both teams in that game
- Store the data into one big shared datasource
- Each person should work independently
- Write a blog about a specific technique or section from the web scraping challenge
- Presentations should different, each person should talk about a specific section of their workflows, the how and the why
Looking forward to being able to use this data in the future to compare Super League to NRL.