Even More Fumblerooski
November 24th, 2008 | Published in Sports, django | 3 Comments
Until I finish setting up a blog on Fumblerooski, here’s another update on the site’s development:
I’ve added team and player statistics for games in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (example), and will build out individual game stats back to 2001 (example). I’ve fixed several outstanding data issues, including bowl games, overtime games and at the suggestion of Chris McComas, moved conference affiliation from the College model to the CollegeYear model. I’ve added an ever-diminishing list of unbeaten teams.
There is, of course, so much more to do. I’ve got a list of feature ideas a mile long, plus an urgent need for some graphics (using the Google Chart API), team rankings and poll data. But now that the elections are over, I can spend some time working on the site. My long-term goal is to have Fumblerooski be a resource for people seeking to identify that one stat, to study a trend (either on the site or via APIs) or just to lose themselves in college football data. What would you like to see?
November 29th, 2008 at 6:40 pm (#)
Dude I love the idea of adding Google Charts capabilities to your site. This is a natural.*
*unless of course you’ve already added them since I last visited your site.
When I was toying with converting the Sun-Sentinel’s homicide database to Django (from Caspio), I started toying with the Google Charts and it seems like there’s so much future in those things.
Of course, my Django Foo was/is weak and I couldn’t figure out how to get aggregates.
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:50 am (#)
This is great. I’ve been playing around with my own football site for some time. I’d love to get involved in this project if I could. I’ve had my own computer rankings application and have been using it for the last 10 years. You can see my rankings here: http://members.cox.net/jocknerd/football/college/cfrank2008.txt
I’m still an amateur with Django but I’m definitely trying to get up to speed.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 am (#)
Hey Jeff,
Please do join – the code lives on GitHub and I suppose we can setup a Google group for Fumblerooski.
Derek