Processing AFL Data

The first step in using R to analyse data about Australian Rules Football is to get the data in the right format.

This article describes how to work with AFL data supplied by Sorenson Technologies Pty Ltd ( http://www.sorensen.com.au/index.html ). Sorenson's provide AFL data for either

• $150 - current season - file is updated weekly
• $15 - prior year seasons. $15 covers the full season

Other sources of AFL data include :-

• Champion Data - the main supplier of AFL data, but for the sports enthusiast it's only available from either the press or by scraping various websites.
• AFL Tables ( http://afltables.com/afl/afl_index.html ). Depending on what the data is, it's available either as a table which you can scrape or downloadable file.

This article will refer data supplied by Sorenson Technologies, as that's what I use.


.....  the rest of this post is published on R Pubs :    http://rpubs.com/gswebstr/afl_data

When I learn how to publish R markdown to a blog, I'll do that !