Football webscraping: Data collection from a top european league — Part 1

“A predictive model is only as good as the data supplied to it” — Paul Corcoran aka the author. But im sure many others will have uttered that line previously. :)

Today, I will talk through the first phase of making a predictive model for football. Sure, there are many free open source websites that provide football statistics that are decent. But when I looked across the major european football leagues the official website of the French Ligue 1 competition offered a number of Opta verified and interesting…