…and a bright mind to interpret it. Storing datasets in locked boxes is out of place in today’s world.
Written by Dean Towers
Arjun Menon is a senior at the University of Michigan majoring in Sports Management with an emphasis in Analytics and minoring in Economics.He is also the owner of One of the best X (Twitter) feeds.Details Hard-to-find soccer statistics, practical intelligence, and angles programmed by himself Used by bettors and fans to enjoy sports.
How did his feed become so popular?
“I have always been a football fan, but when I learned to code my freshman year of college, it took it to the next level. Because we could,” Menon told me over the phone. Please send a direct message to “X”.
“If I didn’t have the NFL data, I probably wouldn’t have taken learning to code as seriously and I might not be where I am today.”
It would be interesting if Menon were a special case, but that’s not the case.
ben baldwin and partner run Rbsdm.com, a completely free site with amazing handicapping and general interest soccer statistics, all created with free data. Additionally, from this same free data, popular independently owned and created websites such as The Edge and NFL Player Stat Explorer were born.
If you visit the soccer betting reddit, you will see that these sites, as well as many others like them, are referenced many times by fans and bettors alike. There is little doubt that the explosion of free data has not only helped to increase micro-level interest in the sport of football, but has also boosted the betting handle as a whole.
Meanwhile, in horse racing, where data has been protected for years, cracks are beginning to appear in that armor.
Just this month, Equibase announced that it would be offering free datasets for the entire year of 2023 for the sport of thoroughbred racing.data giant stated in the release “Potential uses for the data include product development and testing of personal handicapping theories, supporting research projects in academia, and allowing sports marketers and organizations outside the industry to see the types of data available in horse racing. It is included.”
Equibase also said it believes this data release is just a “first step” to stimulate interest and innovation.
The second step, I think, should be harness racing, where every race, every chart line, every piece of past performance data they have in the history of the sport is made available to the same public for free. I believe.
When we make data public, Baldwin, Menon, and other talented programmers can use it if they want. This allows you to create, innovate and potentially increase interest in sports.
Last summer, my cottage neighbor, a nice young man of about 13 years old, came to see me. He was taking a summer course in coding and he was wondering if I could help.
“Do you know Python?” he asked.
“Snakes?” I answered half-jokingly.
No, I couldn’t help my young neighbor, but I did remind him that this is a completely different world. Our pens, paper, and highlighters were once powerful tools for handicap trading, but they have been replaced by R, SQL, and Python. I believe it’s time for our sport to sail with the tide instead of rowing against it.
