cbb-data

Special Note 11/21/2019:

Code is taking shape. Took a while to learn how to ingest the schedule data, but that is now accomplished. Should start to pick up steam from here.

Summary:

Python code used to pull data related to NCAA college basketball teams.

Vision:

I'm building this project on a raspberry pi (4B) with the vision of having the device left on permanently and using crontab jobs to notify me of college basketball events that I am interested in (such as forward and retrospective schedule or game results information for selected teams).

I am initially building in some customizability via a config.ini file (read further for more info), including the customizability of outgoing email server for notifications.

In the longer run, I would like for this to be similar to the cfb-data repo that I currently have. I'd also like to implement a database to handle record storage and processing. However, my preference for a db is MySQL via Workbench, which is currently unavailable for my OS (Raspbian Stretch).

Cloning / Installation:

When cloning this repo, ensure you rename config_template.ini to config.ini and populate the values as described in the comments in that file. The code will not function without the necessary values.

Packages / Requirements:

This repo is built to minimize specialty package requirements. If I've been successful, the code will not require any special package installations. The following packages are used, but were pre-installed with my python 3.7 installation on Raspbian Stretch:

os

sys

configparser

numpy

pandas

requests

datetime

smtplib

email

dateutil

This project gratefully leverages the following other projects:

www.sports-reference.com for:

• Schedule and Ranking data
• Developer of that API can be found at: www.github.com/roclark

Go Deacs!