brlib 0.5.0

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 stat tables and other information.
• Aggregate these into GameSet, PlayerSet, or TeamSet classes, which have similar attributes, for easy analysis of larger samples.
• Easily search for games, players, and teams, and gather their stats.
• Quickly collect data 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:

pip install -e .

If you've cloned the repo, you can also install the development dependencies:

pip install --group 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.