Wikidata:Property proposal/Opta football team ID
Opta football team ID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports
| Description | Opta football team ID |
|---|---|
| Represents | association football team (Q15944511) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | Wikidata property to identify organizations (Q21745557), Wikidata property for an identifier (Q19847637), Wikidata property related to association football (Q23661205) |
| Allowed values | [1-9]\d* |
| Example 1 | Manchester United F.C. (Q18656) → 1 |
| Example 2 | FC Barcelona (Q7156) → 178 |
| Example 3 | San Diego Loyal SC (Q65049617) → 16495 |
| Planned use | Generating external links to stats sites |
| Number of IDs in source | ~16,000 (The total isn't published by Opta, but the IDs seem to have been assigned sequentially, and as listed in the examples, they've gotten at least as high as 16495.) |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Robot and gadget jobs | collecting data, using the IDs to link other datasets |
Motivation edit
Opta Sports (Q3354444) is a very prominent sports data company, and they use a consistent ID scheme across all their association football data (which they claim includes 1,000+ leagues/competitions and 200,000+ matches). They do not offer the data for free on their own website (and annoyingly, even their documentation requires a paying account), but their data is used by many other websites, so the IDs can still be found all over the web. For example, FC Barcelona (team 178) plays in La Liga (competition 23). Knowing those two IDs, you can find the team's 2019 season stats on beIN Sports, Mediaset, and likely many others.
There are also many other sites which use the data without exposing it in the URL, by way of Opta's widgets; e.g. USL Championship and Major League Soccer. Although these are not useful for the purpose of automatically generating external links, it is quite useful as a universal identifier that can be used to link datasets. –IagoQnsi (talk) 02:04, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Support--Trade (talk) 12:59, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
- @IagoQnsi, Trade:
Done Opta football team ID (P8737)
Oppose Y'à aucun liens qui fonctionne Pamputt ! Y'à 0 football team ID sur optasports.com. Je vois aucun intérêt... Arturo63 (talk) 12:59, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
