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https://github.com/klane/databall

Betting on the NBA with data
https://github.com/klane/databall

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Betting on the NBA with data

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/klane/databall
Owner: klane
License: mit
Created: 2017-02-12T07:51:06.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2025-01-01T08:23:15.000Z (about 1 month ago)
Last Synced: 2025-01-19T07:08:18.165Z (14 days ago)
Topics: github-pages, jekyll, jupyter-notebook, machine-learning, nba, python, scrapy, sports-analytics, sports-betting
Language: Jupyter Notebook
Homepage: https://klane.github.io/databall/
Size: 21.3 MB
Stars: 141
Watchers: 10
Forks: 25
Open Issues: 8
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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README

        #  DataBall: Betting on the NBA with data

[![Test Status](https://github.com/klane/databall/workflows/Tests/badge.svg)](https://github.com/klane/databall/actions)

[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/klane/databall.svg?label=License)](LICENSE)

This project combines my interest in data science with my love of sports. I attempt to predict NBA winners against the spread using stats pulled from the [NBA stats website](http://stats.nba.com/) with [nba_api](https://github.com/swar/nba_api) and point spreads and over/under lines from [covers.com](http://covers.com) using the Python web scraping framework [Scrapy](https://scrapy.org/). All code is written in Python and I used the popular machine learning library [scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/) to make all predictions.

Contents:

- [covers](https://github.com/klane/databall/tree/main/databall/covers): Scrapy project to scrape point spreads and over/under lines from [covers.com](http://covers.com)

- [databall](https://github.com/klane/databall/tree/main/databall): Python module with support functions to perform tasks including collecting stats to a SQLite database, simulating seasons, and customizing plots

- [docs](https://github.com/klane/databall/tree/main/docs): Code required to build the GitHub Pages [site](https://klane.github.io/databall/) for this project

- [notebooks](https://github.com/klane/databall/tree/main/notebooks): Jupyter notebooks of all analyses

- [report](https://github.com/klane/databall/tree/main/report): LaTeX files for report and slides

Link to a test database with data from 1990 - March 2020 [test nba.db file](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10CBcCLv2N_neFL39ThykcudUVUv5xqLB/view?usp=sharing)