Want to work with the data directly?
SportSource Analytics is the industry leader when it comes to college football
data.
The same data sets we used to power our platforms (including cfbstats.com), we make
available and affordable to the entire college football analytics
community.
Why Our Data?
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CertifiedOur data set is the official data set of the College Football Playoff. It is also used by hundreds of companies, bloggers, websites, college teams, professional teams, and fans. |
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CompleteOur data set has every play of every game for all 130 FBS Teams. |
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Cost EffectiveSave tens of thousands of dollars in trying to aggregate this data manually. |
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ExtensibleOur CSV (Comma Separated Values) format can easily be imported into any spreadsheet or database in seconds. |
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Guaranteed UpdatesOur files are updated frequently during the week and every Sunday morning after all the weeks games are played. |
Our Data Packages
Below are the three main data packages that we offer.
Basic Package
The Basic Package provides a very robust set of data targeted at those getting
started with analytics. This package is also perfect for fantasy players trying to
gear up for the upcoming season.
Advanced Package
This package is designed to have the lowest level data required to perform very
detailed analytics. It includes detail of every play that is run for all FBS Teams in
addition to all of the data in the Basic Package. Both commerical and non-commerical
packages are available.
Complete Package
This package provides all of the detail of the Advanced Package in addition to a
historical data set going back to 2005. This set is perfect for performing trending
and regression analysis over 10+ years of data. Both commerical and non-commercial
packages are available.
| Basic | Advanced | Complete | |
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| Player Rosters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Player Statistics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Game Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offensive Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Defensive Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Special Teams Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Detailed Drive/Possession Data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Detailed Play By Play Data |  |
✓ | ✓ |
| Historical Data (2005-present) | |
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✓ |
| Cost | Contact Us | Contact Us | Contact Us |
Specifications
All of the data is provided via a compressed zip file. This zip file contains several CSV (Comma Separated Value) files. The files are self-explanatory and each file has detailed column headers that define the statistics covered in the file. There is also a RELEASE.txt file that has a data dictionary to help users work with the files.
⇣ Download our sample Advanced Package file, which is the complete 2005 Season Advanced Package file.
⇣ Download our sample Basic Package file, which is the complete 2005 Basic Package file.
Want to learn more?
Contact us at team@sportsourceanalytics.com for sales information and pricing.