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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

There's already a Michigan page as well, which long predates my project that I will not change.

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

If anyone wants to help gather the leaders for ACC schools or anyone else, 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 -- people from this board have added USF, Rice, East Carolina, Buffalo, and more lately.

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.
09-12-2014 07:26 PM
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Don't most schools have these on their sites? It might be nice to have the links in one spot. Maybe organized alphabetically and/or by conference. I don't see the need to reinvent the wheel.
09-13-2014 10:14 AM
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RE: Working on a college football stats project for Wikipedia
(09-13-2014 10:14 AM)Wolfman Wrote:  Don't most schools have these on their sites? It might be nice to have the links in one spot. Maybe organized alphabetically and/or by conference. I don't see the need to reinvent the wheel.

Bookmark this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:L...rs_by_team

Most schools do have this on their website, but it's very inconvenient to slog through PDF media guides when you're just browsing. Websites like sportsreference do have some of this information, but the lists are generally career lists, rather than single-season or single-game, and they're not as easily organized -- lots of clicking is necessary to get the different lists.
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RE: Working on a college football stats project for Wikipedia
There's a website that I ran across that has a bunch of stats and data like this -- I'll post it on Monday when I get to my workstation.
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RE: Working on a college football stats project for Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:L...rs_by_team

I've put my spreadsheet out there in case anyone wants to create an article for teams that aren't already on Wikipedia:

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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