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Script for Downloading and Parsing Restrosheet Data
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| # modified what's in: https://github.com/davidbmitchell/Baseball-PostgreSQL | |
| # install the necessary tool | |
| brew install chadwick | |
| # create folders | |
| mkdir -p /path/to/retrosheet/{unparsed,parsed} | |
| cd /path/to/retrosheet/unparsed | |
| # you can set startDecade to whichever decade you like | |
| startDecade=1910 endDecade=2020 | |
| while [ $startDecade -le $endDecade ] ; do | |
| http://www.retrosheet.org/events/"$startDecade"seve.zip | |
| let startDecade=startDecade+10 | |
| done | |
| # unzip the downloaded files | |
| find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip {} \; -exec /bin/rm {} \; | |
| # parse the data | |
| # variables for first and last year | |
| x=1910 y=2023 | |
| for (( i=$x; i<=$y; i++)); do cwevent -n -f 0-96 -x 0-60 -y "$i" "$i"*.EV* > ../parsed/all"$i".csv; done | |
| for (( i=$x; i<=$y; i++)); do cwgame -n -f 0-83 -x 0-94 -y "$i" "$i"*.EV* > ../parsed/games"$i".csv; done | |
| for (( i=$x; i<=$y; i++)); do cwsub -n -f 0-9 -y "$i" "$i"*.EV* > ../parsed/sub"$i".csv; done |
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