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Working on a college football stats project for Wikipedia
I'm compiling lists of school leaderboards at the most notable stats. So far it's mostly SEC schools
Arkansas
Auburn
Florida
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Vanderbilt

But not entirely:
Baylor
Kansas State
Michigan State
South Florida
Texas Tech
West Virginia

I would like to eventually have all 129 FBS schools have pages like this up there, but that's going to take a very long time to compile. I have built an Excel spreadsheet to convert tables of the stats leaders into Wikipedia code to make the tables, so there's some time saved there (although it still takes some time to make sure all the links point to the correct person).

If anyone would like to pitch in in the actual compiling of the leaders from the schools' media guides, I have been working from a public Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

Right now I've been focusing on major conferences, but I would like to add the CUSA and other G5 programs as well. If anyone wants to help gather the leaders, it would be greatly appreciated, and the whole world would get to have one of these references for your favorite team. Compiling a single school can be done in about 15-20 minutes, so if lots of people pitch in, the whole project could be done and up on Wikipedia in a few days -- someone from another board put Michigan State and USF on there, and it looks like he's started on the Michigan MAC schools too.

Either way, I hope you enjoy having these resources. I'm primarily a Mississippi State fan, and I've already been referring back to the MSU page several times since the season started to check progress of current players.
09-10-2014 05:22 PM
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UTSA, ODU, and Charlotte should be pretty easy.
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(09-10-2014 05:38 PM)FAUAEPi Wrote:  UTSA, ODU, and Charlotte should be pretty easy.

Haha, I guess they will 04-cheers
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Not sure who uploaded the leaders for Rice, but I'm assuming it was someone here.

Thanks to the anonymous one. I'll be uploading the page tomorrow. (Unless whoever did it would like for me to PM you the code, and you can upload it to Wikipedia yourself, if you'd rather. I'm happy either way.)
09-11-2014 11:02 PM
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NO offense, Jhn.. but you do realize these kind of sites are already out there?

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/

(There are some schools missing obviously (Such as Old dominion)
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(09-12-2014 12:43 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  NO offense, Jhn.. but you do realize these kind of sites are already out there?

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/

(There are some schools missing obviously (Such as Old dominion)

Well yeah, everything on Wikipedia is already out there somewhere, since original research is not allowed on there. The information is also in school's media guides.

However, sportsreference only gives career leaders, not single-season or single-game, and it is not as convenient to move around between teams' lists, or to click on articles about the players.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:L...rs_by_team

I have put my spreadsheet out there so that anyone can create one of these articles with the same formatting:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

If you want your favorite school (or any other school) to have an article, download the workbook to Excel or another problem (File -> Download As), enter the lists on one tab, and use the code from the next one. There is also a detailed instruction page (and if anything is unclear there, let me know and I'll edit it).
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My advice, use the time you would have put on this project and, depending on your position in life:

A) spend the time chasing women and drinking
B) spend the time getting ahead at work
C) spend the time with your kids
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(04-04-2015 10:42 PM)banker Wrote:  My advice, use the time you would have put on this project and, depending on your position in life:

A) spend the time chasing women and drinking
B) spend the time getting ahead at work
C) spend the time with your kids

easily the best advice I've seen on this board in some time....
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(04-04-2015 10:42 PM)banker Wrote:  My advice, use the time you would have put on this project and, depending on your position in life:

A) spend the time chasing women and drinking
B) spend the time getting ahead at work
C) spend the time with your kids

Definitely!
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