Parse Front Office Football 8 Logs

This repo has a script that will parse FOF8 game logs into tabular data containing all sorts of play-by-play information.

Quickstart

This assumes you have a python 3.10 environment with the requirements installed. It also assumes you have exported the game logs to html from within the FOF8 game.

First cd to the script directory: cd ~/fof_logs/src

Then run the script:

python -m parse --logs_dir "C:\Front Office Football Eight\leaguehtml" --league_ids "LG000021,LG000022" --export_dir "D:\SavedLogs"

• --logs_dir is the directory with the FOF 8 logs, usually it looks like the above example.
• --league_ids is a comma separated list of the 8 character ids of the leagues whose logs you'd like to parse.
• --export_dir is a directory you'd like to save the parsed data to. It will create this dir for you if it doesn't already exist.

Output Data

The parsed logs are stored in Feather format which is a very memory/space efficient format for tabular data.

Each row represents one play, and has columns representing:

• The player names for each position on the field.
• The play call information for offense and defense, e.g. the primary and secondary receivers and routes, how many players blitzed, the coverage etc.
• The game context: Quarter, time remaining, field position, down, distance etc.
• The play outcome: Yards gained, whether it was a run or pass, sack, hurry, pressure etc.