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ChrisBabcock
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pro-football-reference search tools...

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...such as the team game finder and player season finder are now behind an $8/ month paywall through stathead.com. :(
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They built a good tool and have the right to monetize it.

I have heard dubious things about them scraping data that others published online however.
ChrisBabcock
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They built a good tool and have the right to monetize it.
True. No argument at all with that. I was just very disappointed (selfishly) when I discovered that now it was a subscription. I may just sign up for it though.
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ChrisBabcock wrote:
They built a good tool and have the right to monetize it.
True. No argument at all with that. I was just very disappointed (selfishly) when I discovered that now it was a subscription. I may just sign up for it though.
I already had a subscription to the Baseball side. It appears I get access to all the sports with one subscription.
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