2012-03-17, 15:30
(2012-03-17, 14:41)pseudoheld Wrote: cool! let me guess mmadb.com?!
really like this idea of an open DB. will be quite a bit of work to cultivate though. hope it works out!
maybe we can somehow import sherdogs already existing DB and build from there on...if that is legal?
something like that (metafight.com actually but there's nothing there yet) yeah it'll be difficult to fill the database at first but i think it'll be worth it in the end to have an open site/api we can use for free. It'd be really simple for me to scrape all this data from sherdog but i really don't know if it's allowed.
AFAIK most of this data is public record as the results of fights have to be reported by the athletic commission. But i'm still not sure i'd be allowed to dump all of sherdog. We might have to start from scratch