brlib 0.4.0

A library for collecting baseball statistics from Baseball Reference

brlib

A library for collecting baseball statistics from Baseball Reference.

[!IMPORTANT] brlib is in beta, breaking changes are possible until the release of version 1.

Key Features

• Game, Player, and Team classes give you easy access to all associated data in one place, with attributes for stats tables, information, and more.
• Aggregate these into GameSet, PlayerSet, or TeamSet classes, which have similar attributes, for easy analysis of larger samples.
• Quickly search for games, players, and teams of interest, and gather their stats without violating the rate limit.

Learn more by reading the documentation on the wiki.

Install

brlib can be installed using pip:

pip install brlib

or by cloning this repo, in which case you'll want to install the development dependencies as well:

pip install -e .[dev]

Once installed, you can import brlib into your Python scripts:

import brlib as br

Data Use

Since brlib gathers data from Baseball Reference, your use of this data is subject to their data use policy.