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beanumber / teamcolors

an R package providing color palettes for pro sports teams
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complete coverage of NCAA logos #13

Closed beanumber closed 4 years ago

beanumber commented 5 years ago

Ugh, this is going to require some name standardization. Maybe IPEDS can help?

lbenz730 commented 5 years ago

For NCAA names I use the names used on ncaa.com. In the dict dataset of ncaahoopR, I have alternate spellings for several other sites. What that, plus a little bit of manual work, I should be able to help get most of the missing ones. Planning on adding some missing teams to the NCAA color palettes though that will require more manual work w/ Chrome developer tools to get the hex codes from logos. In any case, all on my to-do list for the upcoming NCAA hoops season.

beanumber commented 5 years ago

Ah, OK. I was using this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_institutions

Check out what I did here for MLB teams. I'd recommend adding something to reduce an abitrary string to a canonical version of the school's name. So that, for example, 

standardize_name(c(
  "UNC", "University of North Carolina", "North Carolina", 
  "University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill", "University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"
))

would always return north-carolina tar-heels. That way, you have some hope of matching the names from any source.

Not saying it will be easy...

lbenz730 commented 5 years ago

Thanks, can try and do something like that.