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Re:Ask HN: How to legally obtain sports data for commercial ... by sga on Thursday October 14, 2010 @09:30PM (#1793345)
It definitely seems that there must be an opportunity here to compete against STATS and others. But if (like you) you wanted to compete where do you legally get the stats in the first place or in an ongoing manner. What is the original source of the data? Do you have to pay for game tapes, watch them and compile the stats yourself?
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Re:Ask HN: How to legally obtain sports data for commercial ... by cloudkj on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:59PM (#1793533)
I'm also curious as to how you get the data. The fact that there seems to be almost a monopoly by STATS on the data leads me to believe that there needs to be more competition in this space. Curious as to how you guys are going about it.
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Re:Ask HN: How to legally obtain sports data for commercial ... by gcaprio on Friday October 15, 2010 @12:36AM (#1793704)
The NCAA publishes their data as batch feeds for use. We're starting with just using that. In addition to the current data they do that for ( 2000- ) a lot of old data is available dating back to the 1800's in various formats. ( I'm speaking of college football here in particular ).

However, I believe there are certain restrictions surrounding the real time access of data. We haven't come up against that obstacle yet, since we're first attacking historical archiving of data after the fact, even if it's only 1 day after the games have been played.

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