Web scraping NFL data into Stata
13 August 2018
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The nfl2stata command no longer works due to website changes.
Football season is around the corner, and I could not be more excited. We have a pretty competitive StataCorp fantasy football league. I’m always looking for an edge in our league, so I challenged one of our interns, Chris Hassell, to write a command to web scrape http://www.nfl.com for data on the NFL. The new command is nfl2stata. To install the command, type
net install http://www.stata.com/users/kcrow/nfl2stata, replace