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Momentum Football Bets
https://github.com/DidierRLopes/momentum-football-bets
This Easter, I spoke with my girlfriend’s father and there were several football matches happening that weekend, he started talking about betting on some of those matches.
He carried on to explain me his betting routine, which consisted of:
- Checking the next fixtures for a specific competition: https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-fixtures
- Checking the last results of each of the team and “estimate” their momentum (e.g. https://www.skysports.com/football/wolverhampton-wanderers-vs-liverpool/stats/429116)
Then, iterate these 2 steps for all the fixtures happening, from Premier League, Championship, League One, and League Two.
Since I recently learned how to use Beautiful Soup to scrap data from web pages (see GamestonkTerminal), I thought that I could create an automated task that would do all of these steps with a simple double click executable. After checking that I could extract such data from SkySports, I let him know that by the next day I would have something working.
After dinner, I started working on the project, and before I went to sleep I had the first prototype working, which you can see in here.
