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A library to manage and update NFL data in a relational database.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2013-08-29 · latest 2026-06-03

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  1. …this, thank you for publishing your account. I first found you years ago from your nfldb project: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb and since then have used xsv and ripgrep. Also, thank you for participating in the clinical trial. I…
    comment by billjive · 2026-06-03 · in I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
  2. …up the baton: https://github.com/derek-adair/nflgame Back in the day, I used nflgame along with https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflvid https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflfan to setup a simple local web UI…
    comment by burntsushi · 2018-11-13 · in Fun with NFL Stats, Bokeh, and Pandas
  3. …to attract non-programmers or beginner programmers. This happens all the time . Case in point: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/issues/175 And that's a good case, because the error message is actually pretty nice compared to some others…
    comment by burntsushi · 2016-09-08 · in This Is What Python Beginners Have to Deal With
  4. …-- or FanDuel/DraftKings themselves -- have this data available. Or there are projects like https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
    comment by swanson · 2016-01-06 · in How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans into Suckers
  5. ▲ 3
    Open source NFL database with live play-by-play stats
    story by burntsushi · 2015-08-12 · 0 comments
  6. …Easy as pie! There's an extensive wiki (almost 20,000 words) with tons of examples and explanation: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/wiki Other features: aggregating data, player meta data (college, height, weight, etc.) and fuzzy…
    comment by burntsushi · 2014-05-22 · in Open Football Data
  7. Ive used this https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb and this https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame to make this http://www.ffgraf.com/
    comment by dirtestbird · 2014-05-21 · in Open Football Data
  8. …could with my the UPDATE ... INSERT WHERE. (I haven't really studied PL/pgSQL too hard yet.) [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/blob/master/nfldb/db.py#...
    comment by burntsushi · 2014-02-15 · in PostgreSQL 9.4 – What I was hoping for
  9. …to 1999), but it's a rather daunting task when there are so many statistical categories.[1] [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/wiki/Statistical-categor...
    comment by burntsushi · 2014-01-31 · in Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified
  10. …as opposed to parsing the text descriptions. [1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame [2] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
    comment by burntsushi · 2014-01-31 · in Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified
  11. ▲ 2
    Show HN: NFLdb - database of play-by-play data (with live updating)
    story by burntsushi · 2014-01-16 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: NFLdb - search database of play data (with live updates)
    story by burntsushi · 2013-09-17 · 0 comments
  13. …http://godoc.org/github.com/BurntSushi/toml [5] - http://pdoc.burntsushi.net/nfldb#nfldb.Play [6] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/blob/master/nfldb/data-d... [7] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb/blob/master/nfldb/types....
    comment by burntsushi · 2013-08-29 · in A documentation generator for Python code (replaces epydoc)