FIFA World Cup 2018
We're in the midst of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. I've wanted to play with some sort of sports-related data for a while, so I figured now is as good as a time as any to start. I've included a brief overview here, but you can take a look at my blog post for more details.
Collecting the data
After doing some Googling for World Cup APIs, I came across the Sportradar API. Sportradar provides 15 APIs for soccer data alone. Luckily, they provide a free trial for the APIs that allows a total of 1,000 queries. I wrote a Python package to make it easy to download data from a number of the Sportradar APIs.
Visualizations
I was interested in the relationships between height and weight and player positions after seeing this great post looking for similar patterns in the NFL.
