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Originally Posted by jjshabado
What kind of stuff do you do? One project I’d always wanted to do was a better leaderboard for golf. Taking into account difficulty of holes left and where players balls are (a long drive ending in the fairway on a par 5 is obviously very different than a shorter one ending in deep rough). Sort of a shots gained / expected value look at the scores. But getting that data seemed either impossible or crazy expensive so not really worth pursuing. Plus I only really watch golf that I’ve previously recorded and so my own live leaderboard isn’t even useful to me.
I also felt like there’s a whole world of visualizations that could be added to broadcasts based on the advanced data they have. But that’s really out of my wheelhouse.
that's something you would need to apply for the private API
there's a world of SG data that's not available to the public - they only grant academic access to it (i think the concern is sportsbooks and sharps using it for degen purposes) and that project if presented in the correct way may get you granted access
i just use it for dfs, i'm terrible at it, can't code for anything (i'm a dreaded non technical product manager) so primarily work in excel (meaning to switch to python long term but i try for shortcuts and have bugs/errors and am too much of a noob to fix and have a deadline so then back to excel)
what i produce is hot garbage, but surprisingly similar to vegas h2h lines quite often - which just goes to show everything is hot garbage with golf
but hey my hot garbage is still better than what the field does, which is "Finau is really feeling it I'm playing him" or "Horschel is from Florida I gotta play him there"