IntroductionΒΆ

The sports-betting package provides a set of classes that help to download sports betting data. Additionally, it includes a backtesting engine to evaluate the performance of machine learning models.

The dataloader objects and their methods can be used to download sports betting data. For each data source or combination of data sources a corresponding dataloader class is provided. For example, the FTESoccerDataLoader class can be used to download soccer historical data and fixtures from FiveThirtyEight:

from sportsbet.datasets import FTESoccerDataLoader
dataloader = FTESoccerDataLoader()
X_train, Y_train, Odds_train = dataloader.extract_train_data()
X_fix, Y_fix, Odds_fix = dataloader.extract_fixtures_data()

Similarly the, FDSoccerDataLoader class can be used to download soccer historical data and fixtures from Football-Data.co.uk:

from sportsbet.datasets import FDSoccerDataLoader
dataloader = FDSoccerDataLoader(param_grid={'league': ['Italy', 'Spain'], 'year': [2019, 2020]})
X_train, Y_train, Odds_train = dataloader.extract_train_data(odds_type='pinnacle')
X_fix, Y_fix, Odds_fix = dataloader.extract_fixtures_data()

The backtesting part is still under active development and it will be available soon.