Volley Stats

Command-line tool to scrape volleyball statistics from Data Project Web Competition websites.

Volley Stats facilitates the export of data in CSV format of volleyball matches and competitions organized by entities that use Data Project WCM. The tool streamlines the collection of individual matches, match lists, and automates the retrieval of individual match data from the competition matches list.

Additionally, it documents the structure of URLs for Web Competition websites, simplifying the search for identifiers (mID, ID, PID), and also supplies acronyms for the main entities utilizing Data Project Management.

This tool is not affiliated with Genius Sports Italy.

Installation

Requirement

• Python 3.8+

pip install volleystats

Documentation

• Extracted Data
• Usage
  • Match
  • Competition Matches
  • Competition Matches with PID
  • Matches via Competition Matches file
  • Help
  • Log
  • Output messages
• Data Project Web Competition URLs structure
  • Hostname
  • Pathnames and search parameters
• Federations, Confederations and Leagues Acronym
  • European Volleyball
  • South American Volleyball
• Troubleshooting
  • Match files collected from batch file

Extracted Data

• Competition

  • Competition ID
  • Home Team
  • Guest Team
  • Home Points
  • Guest Points
  • Date
  • Stadium

• Match

  • Match ID
  • Match date
  • Home Team
  • Guest Team
  • Coach
  • Stadium
  • Total Points
  • Break Points
  • Win-Lost
  • Total Serves
  • Serve Erros
  • Serve Points
  • Total Receptions
  • Reception Erros
  • Positive Pass Percentage (Pos%)
  • Excellent/ Perfect Pass Percentage (Exc.%)
  • Total Attacks
  • Attack Erros
  • Blocked Attack
  • Attack Points (Exc.)
  • Attack Points Percentage (Exc.%)
  • Block Points

Usage

volleystats [--help] --fed FED (--match MATCH | --comp COMP | --batch CSV_FILE_PATH) [--pid PID] [--log]

• --fed, -f: Federation Acronym (required)
• --match, -m: Statistics of a single match (required, unless --comp or --batch are provided)
• --comp, -c: List of matches in a competition (required, unless --match or --batch are provided)
• --pid, -p: PID of the competition (optional, only when --comp is provided)
• --batch, -b: CSV file path with Match IDs (Competition Matches output) (required, unless --match or --comp are provided)
• --log, -l: View the logging during scraping
• --help, -h: Show help message

Match

volleystats --fed FED --match MATCH

Examples

• Brazilian Volleyball Confederation

  • Data Project website: https://cbv-web.dataproject.com/MatchStatistics.aspx?mID=1623
  • Federation Acronym: CBV
  • Match ID: 1623
  • Command: $ volleystats --fed cbv --match 1623
  • Output files:

    data/cbv-1623-22-10-28-guest-baruerivolleyballclub.csv
    data/cbv-1623-22-10-28-home-fluminense.csv
    

• Lithuanian Volleyball Federation

  • Data Project website: https://lvf-web.dataproject.com/MatchStatistics.aspx?mID=2093
  • Federation Acronym: LVF
  • Match ID: 2093
  • Command: $ volleystats --fed lvf --match 2093
  • Output files:

    data/lvf-2093-2022-11-23-guest-jonavossc.csv
    data/lvf-2093-2022-11-23-home-svaja-viktorija-lsu.csv
    

Competition Matches

volleystats --fed FED --comp COMP

Example

• Brazilian Volleyball Confederation
  • Data Project website: https://cbv-web.dataproject.com/CompetitionMatches.aspx?ID=18
  • Federation Acronym: CBV
  • Competition ID: 18
  • Command: $ volleystats --fed cbv --comp 18
  • Output file:

    data/cbv-18-2022-2023-competition-matches.csv
    

Competition Matches with PID

In some competitions, PID can be used to distinguish between seasons, such as regular season and playoffs. Therefore, it is necessary to submit this value to obtain statistics separately.

volleystats --fed FED --comp COMP --pid PID

Examples

• Bundesliga
  • Data Project website: https://vbl-web.dataproject.com/CompetitionMatches.aspx?ID=162&PID=173
  • Federation Acronym: VBL
  • Competition ID: 162
  • PID: 173
  • Season: Regular
  • Command: $ volleystats --fed vbl --comp 162 --pid 173
  • Output file:

    data/vbl-162-173-2022-2023-competition-matches.csv
    

  ---

  • Data Project website: https://vbl-web.dataproject.com/CompetitionMatches.aspx?ID=162&PID=174
  • Federation Acronym: VBL
  • Competition ID: 162
  • PID: 174
  • Season: Playoffs
  • Command: $ volleystats --fed vbl --comp 162 --pid 174
  • Output file:

    data/vbl-162-174-2023-2023-competition-matches.csv
    

Matches via Competition Matches file

volleystats --fed FED --batch CSV_FILE_PATH

Example

• Brazilian Volleyball Confederation
  • Data Project website: https://cbv-web.dataproject.com/MatchStatistics.aspx?mID=ID
  • Federation Acronym: CBV
  • CSV file path (output of the Competition Matches): data/cbv-18-2022-2023-competition-matches.csv
  • Command: $ volleystats --fed cbv --batch data/cbv-18-2022-2023-competition-matches.csv
  • Output files:

    data/cbv-1623-22-10-28-guest-baruerivolleyballclub.csv
    data/cbv-1623-22-10-28-home-fluminense.csv
    data/cbv-1618-2022-11-01-guest-energis8sãocaetano.csv
    data/cbv-1618-2022-11-01-home-esporteclubepinheiros.csv
    data/cbv-1619-2022-11-01-guest-abelmodavolei.csv
    data/cbv-1619-2022-11-01-home-gerdauminas.csv
    ...
    

Help

volleystats --help

Log

volleystats --fed FED (--match MATCH | --comp COMP | --batch CSV_FILE_PATH) --log

Output messages

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volleystats: started
volleystats: data/cbv-1623-22-10-28-home-fluminense.csv file was created
volleystats: data/cbv-1623-22-10-28-guest-baruerivolleyballclub.csv file was created
volleystats: finished

Data Project Web Competition URLs structure

• Hostname: <Fed_Acronym>-web.dataproject.com

• Pathnames and search parameters:

  • /MainHome

  • /History?ID=<Fed_ID>

  • /CompetitionHome?ID=<Category_ID> (could be Women, Men, Pro or Youth, e.g.)

  • /CompetitionMatches?ID=<Competition_ID>&PID=<PID> (PID could be regular season or playoffs, e.g.)

  • /MatchStatistics?mID=<Match_ID>&ID=<Competition_ID>

Federations, Confederations and Leagues Acronyms

European Volleyball

• fshv: Albanian Volleyball Federation
• bvl: Baltic League
• bevl: Belgium Volleyball Federation
• osbih: Bosnia and Herzegovina Volleyball Federation
• bvf: Bulgarian Volleyball Federation
• vbl: Bundesliga
• hos: Croatian Volleyball Federation
• cvf: Czech Volleyball Federation
• evf: Estonian Volleyball Federation
• fbf: Faroe Islands Volleyball Association
• lml: Finland Volleyball League
• eope: Hellenic Volleyball Federation
• hvl: Hellenic Volleyball League
• hvf: Hungary Volleyball Federation
• bli: Icelandic Volleyball Association
• iva: Israel Volleyball Association
• fipav: Italian Volleyball Federation
• vfrk: Volleyball Federation of Republic of Kazakhstan
• latvf: Latvian Volleyball Federation
• lnv: Ligue Nationale de Volley
• lvf: Lithuanian Volleyball Federation
• mva: Malta Volleyball Association
• nvbf: Norwegian Volleyball Federation
• fpv: Portuguese Volleyball Federation
• frv: Romanian Volleyball Federation
• ossrb: Serbian Volleyball Federation
• svf: Slovak Volleyball Federation
• ozs: Slovenian Volleyball Federation
• rfevb: Spanish Volleyball Federation
• svbf: Swedish Volleyball Federation
• swi: Swiss Volley
• tvf: Turkish Volleyball Federation
• uvf: Ukrainian Volleyball Federation
• pvlu: Professional Volleyball League of Ukraine

South American Volleyball

• feva: Argentine Volleyball Federation
• cbv: Brazilian Volleyball Confederation
• fcv: Cordoba Volleyball Federation
• fpdv: Peruvian Volleyball Federation

Troubleshooting

Match files collected from batch file

In some cases, empty files may be returned, usually named as <fed_acronym>-<match_id>-guest_stats.csv and <fed_acronym>-<match_id>-home_stats.csv. This can happen due to the hiding of a match in the competition listing, either because it was canceled or incorrectly entered. The match is hidden from view, but it remains accessible in the HTML, causing the tool to return an empty file. In such cases, simply ignore and delete this file.

It can also happen that the data is only available in PDF, which makes scraping impossible.

Development

$ git clone git@github.com:claromes/volleystats.git

$ cd volleystats

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

$ pip install --editable .

Author

Claromes