Become a book in 21 days

[infinii]

Not actually a book but would like to create a site that tracks lines and scores.

I've looked and I just can't find any sources of electronic lines and scores that are easily manipulated so I can store them into a database.

www.cswstats.com provides nice ascii text pages for them lines but they are formatted to be easily read by human eyes. All that formatting is extraneous when all I need is the raw data to be entered into a computer. I've actually written a program to parse their linesheets because all the formatting follows a pattern. However, scoreboards are a different story, I haven't found anything that is easily parsed.

What sources do offshore books use to receive their lines and scores? I'm looking for a solution that can be automated so I don't need someone in the back room reading lines/scores and entering them by hand.

Jack, where do you get your lines from for the bestbettor site? Do they provide similar service for scores?

I just can't believe that all these offshores have ppl watching the games on dishes to confirm final scores and others entering lines in by hand. This is the computer age!!!

 

[MadJack]

man....those are questions for my programmers. they know how to do all that stuff but i have no idea. i doubt they teach their tricks of the trade either. sounds like you're on your way though. good luck with it.

 

[infinii]

no need for them to teach me their tricks. I'm just wondering if they are provided scores/lines in a format that is easily loaded into your databases or are they doing it the hard way and 'parsing' it.

also want to thank you for the great site and even more so for the great picks in MLB this year. I was chicken to get down on that 2nd Fla game but one +200 winner is good enuff. THANKS!!

 

[yak merchant]

Infinii,

I'll ask Jack to send you my email. I have a couple of solutions. But haven't been used them in a long while. Have to dust off the code and see if the formats are still the same.

YM