Need help getting started with scraping and analyzing stuff

[Filthy Dangles]

I am looking for any advice and help with how to get started with scraping info from sites like NHL.com (namely the PbP and JSON files) and once scraped what to do with it to answer the questions I might have.

I have a brief and vague idea of the steps involved, first would be scraping the information I am looking for, storing that info in a useful way, then crunching the numbers/analysis. Problem is, I am totally lost in how to actually do these things.

I consider myself pretty technically savy but I have no background in anything like programming or statistics which I am sure would certainly apply here.

Any advice or ideas where to start would be appreciated.

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[Doctor No]

I've been in a similar boat (90% through lack of time or more time-sensitive projects) - have been attempting to scrape the AHL website for a few things in back years (backup goaltenders, sweater numbers, shots and goals by period, empty-net goals) and haven't been able to get it all together.

 

[morehockeystats]

Hockey-Graphs Mentorship Program I guess...
Scraping was covered by me in a tutorial I gave at OTTHAC.
Plotting via Tableau was covered by Sean Tierney in the following tutorial.
The slides from my tutorial are available:
Ottawa Hockey Analytics at Carleton (#OTTHAC19)
And the videos should be uploaded later.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

I am looking for any advice and help with how to get started with scraping info from sites like NHL.com (namely the PbP and JSON files) and once scraped what to do with it to answer the questions I might have.

I have a brief and vague idea of the steps involved, first would be scraping the information I am looking for, storing that info in a useful way, then crunching the numbers/analysis. Problem is, I am totally lost in how to actually do these things.

I consider myself pretty technically savy but I have no background in anything like programming or statistics which I am sure would certainly apply here.

Any advice or ideas where to start would be appreciated.

u can use the thing in EvolvingWild's pinned tweet i think