My apologies to the statisticians


I must apologize to my statisticians out there. I know that you all like getting the box score summary data. I thought I got all the data – but the codes I have are messing up what games are neutral court games based on some changes to the formatting on the NCAA site. I think I have figured it out, but I also don’t want to have to pull all 6000 box scores again.

So that will be an exercise for tomorrow – I run the schedule code each morning to give the NCAA time to load all the late evening games (for example, the Gonzaga vs San Francisco game is just starting).

I am hoping that my fixes will run tomorrow – and then I can use some IDs that I have in the files to clean up what is in all of the box scores without having to pull that data again – otherwise, I have to scrape their site for what will take 4-5 hours, which I am sure they would appreciate me not doing during championship week. So, hopefully by the time that the WCC championship is playing tomorrow, I will finally have the usual data that I provide everyone.

No promises – this has sadly not been going as smoothly as it normally does.