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bastillon · Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 55

big thanks cheerokee

zHoops · Joined: 15 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Very impressive cherokee, thanks for the good work!
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Carlos · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

ESPN has changed the format of the boxscores pages again, making the script non functional.
¿Does somebody has any idea of how to fix this?

Joe · Joined: 27 Sep 2009 Posts: 94 Location: Long Island, NY

Just go to hoopdata.com instead.
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jkubatko · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 702 Location: Columbus, OH

**cherokee_ACB** · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 157

Quick fix available, although for some reason the color code is not working (and now this also works). To check, just go to
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=300202005

(I haven't tested yet with live games, though)

Carlos · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Big thanks to Joe and Justin for the suggestions and to Cherokee_ACB for the great work.

**cherokee_ACB** · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 157

Just a heads up, I've fixed a problem with pace computation on live games.

Serhat Ugur (hoopseng) · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:58 pm Post subject:

Carlos · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

If you tried to use this script lately, you probably saw that it wasn't working.
The fix is to locate this line

Carlos · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 64 Location: Montevideo, Uruguay

Sorry, but it doesn't seems to work for live games (on ESPN boxscores).

StatsbyNumbers · Joined: 30 Apr 2010 Posts: 10 Location: Santa Barbara, CA

FYI - ESPN changes their boxscore format at the end of the first round (or near it) each year - it will likely revert back to the regular season format next year. I believe they contracted a different firm to work the stylesheets for them as it started changing a couple years back(the format includes more detailed stuff like series stats than they do in the regular season). Another fair warning is that sometimes the play-by-plays that are available on ESPN don't make logical sense (although I'm not sure of the impact in your script) e.g. team rebounds missing, offensive rebounds out of order, plays that are inserted in later periods, missing substitutions at the end of periods.

I don't have the stats available live, but they are usually posted within the hour or two of the game finishing and play-by-plays are much more well ordered if you'd like to run scripts on them. I am still missing my pace stat (pace = 48min*60sec / avg. poss in sec), but I do have non-estimated (actual) possession statistics for the entire post season. http://statsbynumbers.com/game/

Hope you find the data useful. Thanks,

Mike G · Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Possessions

StatsbyNumbers · Joined: 30 Apr 2010 Posts: 10 Location: Santa Barbara, CA

They unfortunately don't have series stats more than the little box that comes up with the win loss stats (http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/scoreboard?date=20100513) at the bottom of a game summary. I was just trying to point out some of the post season and regular season differences that may be affecting the regular expression searches that are being done. The regular season stuff doesn't have any series stats on it (http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/scoreboard?date=20100414). Some of the major changes are the stylesheet class names. In the regular season, they use the classes "odd" and "even", while in the post season they use "oddrow" and "evenrow". However there are many more inconsistencies (more than I could name here) between the two templates.

Since people have been asking for series stats, I will be adding them to the player and team pages on my site. I'm finishing up my first article, but once that is done I will make the changes.