We need a unique way to idenfity each college/university that will work across any public data sets. For example looking at the differences between 'UNC' and 'UNC Chapel Hill', or 'UNCCH', these all refer to the same school. We could consider something liike IPEDS ids, which is great for demographic info (where is the college, size of the student body, mascot, tuition, public/private, is it an HBCU?, etc.) but may not map to sports statistics data sites.
We need a unique way to idenfity each college/university that will work across any public data sets. For example looking at the differences between 'UNC' and 'UNC Chapel Hill', or 'UNCCH', these all refer to the same school. We could consider something liike IPEDS ids, which is great for demographic info (where is the college, size of the student body, mascot, tuition, public/private, is it an HBCU?, etc.) but may not map to sports statistics data sites.
@seth127 do you have any thoughts?