Choice of sport

[PeteHaitch]

Here are a few options:

• tennis
• AFL
• basketball
• netball
• soccer
• cricket

[PeteHaitch]

WTA (tennis, international)

• Scraping required: No
• Data quality: Crazy comprehensive. Match-level statistics
• Link: Jeff Sackmann has already provided match results as CSV files covering years 1968-2017 https://github.com/JeffSackmann/tennis_wta/ Pretty amazing resource

[PeteHaitch]

AFLW (Australian rules football, Australian league (duh))

• Scraping required: Yes. ~Funky (javascript?) interface might make scraping challenging. Table can only display 11 statistics at a time (WTF!?)~ Actually, not so bad: data appear to be in the HTML (e.g., try view-source:http://www.afl.com.au/womens/matches/stats in Google Chrome)
• Data quality: Player-level and team-level data. Limited in scope (the competition is young with only 1 season)
• Link: http://www.afl.com.au/womens/matches/stats

[PeteHaitch]

WNBL (basketball, Australian league)

• Scraping required: Yes. Slightly simpler than AFLW as tables are non-interactive
• Data quality: Player-level and team-level data. Fairly basic aggregate statistics. Data available for seasons 1996-2017
• Link: http://wnbl.com.au/stats/

[PeteHaitch]

Cricket

Wikipedia provides various aggregate tables. E.g.,

• List of women's One Day International cricket records
• List of women's Test cricket records

Marion Collin (an ICC statistician) has provided miscellaneous tables. E.g.,

• http://www.womenscricket.net/stats-home.htm

[robjhyndman]

Cricket

http://www.womenscricket.net/stats-home.htm Probably the definitive source as it is compiled by the official ICC statistician. Mostly scrapable I think. But seems to be summary stats rather than raw data.

Raw data provided by http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html for all international players including women.

[jesse-jesse]

Netball

http://my.netball.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/PlayerScoringReport.aspx?opmode=1&matchid= Data only available for 2013 > Coles Netball Test Series.

matches played also available - http://my.netball.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/PlayerMatches.aspx?id=RV_CMA

[katerobsau]

Domestic Netball League - https://supernetball.com.au/ There are limited statistics available, and the form is not anywhere near as comprehensive as other national leagues, eg. WNBL and WAFL

[katerobsau]

So for tennis http://www.tennis-data.co.uk/ausopen.php is a gold mine!!!

It contains match data and betting data, so we can see whether we can make some money!

[spsamithree]

WNBL Data cannot be retrieved using the same code as AFLW Data. The data seems not in the form of HTML tables

[katerobsau]

Australian sports bet data

http://www.aussportsbetting.com/data/historical-afl-results-and-odds-data/

[jesse-jesse]

Soccer

https://www.w-league.com.au/

[katerobsau]

As for tennis - https://github.com/JeffSackmann/ is definitely the data keeper - with the most complete online records for both WTA and ATP competitions.

This data has already been turned into a comprehensive package, including betting odds, by https://github.com/skoval/deuce

I'm not sure if there is value to be added here.

[PeteHaitch]

Athletics

Scraping required: Yes, but from PDF rather than HTML Data quality: Fairly complete looking set of record times/distances Link: http://athletics.com.au/Results/Rankings