Stats resources.

[Snoochems]

For anyone wanting a machine-readable source of basic game stats:

Squiggle API

api.squiggle.com.au

**Yoink**

Pretty cool stuff. Going to play with this in Pandas.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Hi guys, any chance any kind of GPS stats are publicly available? Want to player speed / sprint comparisons for a view of overall workrate but not sure where to start

 

[AHandyPoint]

I've endeavoured to compile a Twitter list comprised of accounts that predominantly tweet about the AFL and statistics/data analysis. You can find it here https://twitter.com/AHandyPoint/lists/afl-stats-resources. Love to hear any suggestions for other accounts that could/should be added to this list .

 

[stemline]

Are we at all concerned that afl.com.au has wiped all its historical stats after the website rebrand? Can't even access last year's.

Let alone the Stats Pro section that had some stats other sites don't (e.g. hit outs to adv)

Thank Christ (or Paul) for afltables, but what are they doing at afl house? afltables may as well now be the official afl stats site.

Footywire goes alright too of course.

 

[35Daicos]

Are we at all concerned that afl.com.au has wiped all its historical stats after the website rebrand? Can't even access last year's.

Let alone the Stats Pro section that had some stats other sites don't (e.g. hit outs to adv)

Thank Christ (or Paul) for afltables, but what are they doing at afl house? afltables may as well now be the official afl stats site.

Footywire goes alright too of course.

I presume you've seen this? It does at least suggest that Stats Pro will be back: https://www.afl.com.au/stats

I've no idea whether or not the old stuff will reappear, but if not that's very ordinary.

 

[*Paul*]

What worries me is that they will publish ongoing stats in some obtuse fashion, and it will become a huge pain in the bum to get them.

 

[stemline]

I presume you've seen this? It does at least suggest that Stats Pro will be back: https://www.afl.com.au/stats
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I've no idea whether or not the old stuff will reappear, but if not that's very ordinary.

No, I hadn't seen that. Vaguely reassuring. Cheers

 

[stemline]

Footywire has several (what they term 'advanced') stats that the AFL site didn't, and they publish them within minutes of a game finishing. Anyone know how they get hold of them? It would seem strange if they pay champion data for them and then publish them for free.

 

[Final Siren]

Are we at all concerned that afl.com.au has wiped all its historical stats after the website rebrand? Can't even access last year's.

Let alone the Stats Pro section that had some stats other sites don't (e.g. hit outs to adv)

Thank Christ (or Paul) for afltables, but what are they doing at afl house? afltables may as well now be the official afl stats site.

Footywire goes alright too of course.

It's super concerning and more than a bit frustrating!

Presumably it will return in some form at some point, but it's impossible to prepare anything for season 2020. There have been a few stats guys grouching on Twitter over summer.

Relatedly, my article: https://squiggle.com.au/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-an-afl-api/

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Even the URL’s have changed.

 

[Engimal v3]

Good God, the AFL stats pages are a nightmare now. Their website keeps getting worse.

 

[Final Siren]

Yeah, it's pretty sad. They don't even have info on non-current players any more.

 

[stemline]

Anyone else having issues using the Trove advanced search function? Can't seem to filter it to Victorian papers anymore.

Edit: Nevermind, the drop down only shows SA and NSW papers but if you type 'Vic' you can select them.

 

[Engimal v3]

If anyone has hypothetically figured out a way to generate AFL website media token for the stats pro API, send us a message.

 

[Macjoe]

Looking for a resource that lists a player's midfield minutes. By games, and/or totals.
Can anyone help?

 

[Jivlain]

I've added another site to my little collection covering VFLW stats for 2021 (and onwards):

https://vfl.aflwstats.com/

Unfortunately I haven't come up with much by way of statistics to cover earlier than that.

So I've now got
VFL/AFL (1897-)
AFLW (2017-)
VFL (2021-)
VFLW (2021-)

 

[Engimal v3]

Did the AFL remove their Smart Replay or whatever it was called on their website? Timestamped stats. Can't find it anymore - was available within the last 2 years

 

[WheeloRatings]

Did the AFL remove their Smart Replay or whatever it was called on their website? Timestamped stats. Can't find it anymore - was available within the last 2 years

You can still access it through the AFL App, but not the website anymore.

 

[Engimal v3]

You can still access it through the AFL App, but not the website anymore.

Yeah, figured that out since. For a second there I thought I had only remembered it in a fever dream.

 

[BeornJ]

Anyone use the afl app to watch vision of specific players?

Great 95% of the time, but for some reason, the footage from the eagles crows game is 3-4 seconds early. I'm trying to watch footage of young Eagles players because watching full games gives me nightmares atm

But the footage cuts out just as the player grabs the ball or arrives at the contest. Super annoying. Is there a complaints or tech page I can contact?

 

[Paul P Mark]

New AFL stats site - you can filter and find lots of records:

AFL Data – Comprehensive AFL data with filtering

afldata.info

 

[Bob Neil]

Does anyone know if there is any repository of historical data for the 'tracker' functionality that the AFL makes available in game? It seems to disappear pretty quickly afterwards but I wonder if any person/people/community have been compiling that data over time...?

 

[Daniltchenko You Beauty]

Hi all, can anyone point me to a spreadsheet of past AFLW results? Thanks heaps xx

 

[Bob Neil]

Does anyone know what a Champion Data subscription costs? Does that get you access to historical data?

 

[Jivlain]

I've added another site to my little collection covering VFLW stats for 2021 (and onwards):

https://vfl.aflwstats.com/

Unfortunately I haven't come up with much by way of statistics to cover earlier than that.

So I've now got
VFL/AFL (1897-)
AFLW (2017-)
VFL (2021-)
VFLW (2021-)

Finally finished a major upgrade I've had in progress for a bit.

New functionality:

• Matches for a given team can be viewed not only by season, but also by venue, state, opponent and weather
• Weather and temperature where available (generally since about 2010).
• View historical "upcoming" graphs as they would have been before historical games
• View year-by-year top goalkicker for each team (including finals) as well as league overall (H&A only - i.e. Coleman)
• If you copy tables into BigFooty comments they copy much nicer (excluding the team logos)
• It's much easier for me to maintain

Deployed across all sites.

Do let me know if I've broken stuff!