This program gathers season/career stats from Pro Football Reference/Stathead for use in Madden.
The current release for this project can be found here. It includes the readme file and the exe needed to run the program.
To run this program, take the maddenimporter.excel.exe file. If you double click it, it'll run the current season's stats for active NFL players and will output to an Excel file. To run with parameters or to run the program with the goal of gathering career stats, open a Command Prompt, cd to the folder where the maddenimporter.excel.exe file is, and run maddenimporter.excel.exe -h to see available options.
For career stats, this program pulls from StatHead, and it requires a paid subscription to access the data. You can provide your username and password in two ways:
- Use the
-u (username)and-p (password)command-line arguments while running the program; or - Create a file in the root directory called
login.privatewith two lines. The first line is your username, and the second line is your password. IMPORTANT!: When running a career stats pull, ensure that you have Firefox downloaded and have a Firefox tab open.
The program will not save your username and / or password. You must either create a file or enter the information every time you run the program.
If you want to save the data as an Excel file, use
dotnet run -p MaddenImporter.Excel/ -- [-y year] [--path path] [--career] [-u username] [-p password]If you wish to use a different file format, the MaddenImporter class library contains all the necessary functions and data.
The executable file for your operating system can be found in the dist/ folder, and in the main folder. Currently only Windows is supported.
./maddenimporter.excel(.exe) [-y year] [--path path] [--career] [-u username] [-p password]