Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

PFR is a great resource but be sure if you are using it for play by play to first check it against the game book or you might find yourself chasing errors later on. Agreed. For a while the punting stats were way off for cumulative games within a season, but that seems to be fixed now. Still, trust ...

Going back to the 60's. Also, there's the value of entering the data myself. I get a much better feel for the players and the way the games were played that way. But, to be sure, PFR's data is endlessly valuable and I use it all the time.

Wasn't there already an effort to do this about ten years back? To create a football version of Retrosheet, more or less? That is sorta kinda what you're talking about, isn't it? Sean Lahman was in charge of it if memory serves. It didn't get very far, but I think a number of games were done before...

I've wandered into Access once in a while to see what I could make of it but I either end up having a startlingly large number of tables or fewer tables with lots and lots of fields. Mostly I just learn that I'm not very good at the conceptualizing that needs to happen before I start creating object...

Wondering if any one has any recommendations regarding either standalone software or spreadsheet(s) for entering data from gamebooks and manipulating the data. I have put together my own set of Excel workbooks that work reasonably well, but the main sheet has well over 100 columns and makes data ent...

Those are typically used when the team's lineups are listed side-by-side and one set of abbreviations runs between the columns. So, LER means left end for the team on the left and right end for the team on the right, and so on. I think the goal was to show which players would line up opposite each o...

An obscure site called Fulton Postcards has some Buffalo papers, not a complete run, but through the 1960s. This site is free, but is difficult to navigate. In order to search issues, or go from one page to the next, you have to alter the code in the web address (which is like 200 characters long) ...

There is the issue of copyrighted material from the newspaper being put on the site, but aren't gamebooks copyrighted also and we have them on our site? it would be nice if we could collect this information from newspapers and make them available. Facts are not subject to copyright, so we are free ...

The Coliseum used a different football orientation based on whether the A's were still playing. Once the A's season finished and the new sod was laid down on the basepaths, they shifted the orientation mid-football season to get a more favorable seating arrangement for fans.

I do understand the cost factor but I have to assume the same is true in baseball which had no qualms about spending more money to have grass surfaces. I think a couple of differences apply here. One is that football players do a lot more damage to a field than baseball players who do most of their...