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Scraping from Sky Racing

T

that_guy

Yearling
Two things really, I've been working on a basic scraper for the above (gets runners history), and posted the results on one drive.

Only used one drive a couple of times, and this link should enable you to download the history of the runners for the (at the time of posting) 19/08/16. (The link below shows the wrong date)


Link removed, see next link below.

Hopefully it works, and would appreciate some feedback as to whether anyone finds this sort of information useful?
 
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Hi T that_guy

File downloaded fine.
Just one comment is that good old excel insists on displaying strings it thinks are dates as dates.
So as you can see on 13th July when Abarata finished 9th of 14 it is displayed as 14-Sep
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that_guy said:
Does anyone have any feedback/ideas of how this could be utilised?
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Have you seen HorseRaceBase.com ? That might give you some ideas as to the data that is useful to collect.
A list of past results for a horse is only a small part the story, it is much more useful if you know what the other horses were in those races and how they performed as well.
 
Does anyone have any feedback/ideas of how this could be utilised?
Post race data is good for future form reading but you need to be able to assemble future races from that historical data.
That requires a big database and plenty of computing power.
 
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