Data Sources

Here are some resources for finding sports datasets:

• CRAN Task View for Sports Analytics - catalog of R packages published on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) organized by sport (curated by Benjamin S. Baumer, Quang Nguyen, and Gregory J. Matthews)
• SportsDataverse initiative - collection of software tools for accessing publicly available sports data (organized by Saiem Gilani)
• Kaggle
• TidyTuesday - GitHub repository of datasets updated weekly with example code for accessing data (featuring a variety of sports examples)
• FiveThirtyEight - GitHub repository of datasets used in FiveThirtyEight articles