Nov23

College Basketball Futures That May be Profitable

by LineProjector on November 23, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Posted In: College Basketball

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been able to watch A LOT of basketball. Though it’s hard to get a real good read on some of these teams in these early season tournaments, here’s a few teams that we think may be worthy of a futures bet.

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Oct17

WebScrape Stats: Part 2

by LineProjector on October 17, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Posted In: WebScrape Stats

In Part 1 of our WebScrape tutorial, we took a look at a simple PHP script to scrape offensive stats for all MLB teams.  If you missed Part 1, you can READ IT HERE.  In Part 2 of the tutorial, we’ll take a look at how you can run a script (or program) to scrape stats and how you can save the data to use however you wish.

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Oct14

NCAAF Week 7 Notes

by LineProjector on October 14, 2012 at 11:05 am
Posted In: NCAA Football

Week 7 was a tough one for for us, and from the sounds of it, for many bettors whose opinion we respect more than our own.  After a tough week, it’s always best to move on and try to learn something from each of your losing bets.  Chalk Week 7 up as a learning experience if you gave some back to the books.  If you were able to profit – nice job.  Here’s a few takeaways from Week 7:

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Oct10

WebScrape Stats: Part 1

by LineProjector on October 10, 2012 at 8:51 pm
Posted In: WebScrape Stats

Over at Beyond the Bets several people were interesting in learning to scrape stats off of websites.  This is called WebScraping or data mining.  This is something we’re pretty familiar with and wanted to help others out.  Our example is in PHP.  There is really no “correct” language for WebScraping.  Most languages will work, we just prefer PHP.  Python may be easier for beginners.  This first post has more to do with looking at actual code.  In future articles, we’ll discuss different approaches for running these scripts.

This particular tutorial pulls back offensive stats for all MLB teams.

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Oct08

NCAAF Week 6 Notes

by LineProjector on October 8, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Posted In: NCAA Football

A quick recap from week 6 of college football.  This week, we saw an impressive win by Florida and we saw Arkansas break their losing streak.  With a win this weekend at LSU, South Carolina must be considering a legit national title contender.  We were also impressed with West Virginia in their first road game in the Big 12.

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