Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID
Sports-Reference.com college basketball school ID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports
| Description | identifier for an NCAA Division I college men's basketball team on Sports-Reference.com |
|---|---|
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | basketball team (Q13393265) |
| Allowed values | [a-z]+[a-z-]*[a-z]+ |
| Example 1 | Duke Blue Devils men's basketball (Q4171772) → duke |
| Example 2 | UCLA Bruins men's basketball (Q3615392) → ucla |
| Example 3 | UMBC Retrievers men's basketball (Q7865081) → maryland-baltimore-county |
| Source | https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/ |
| Mix'n'match | 3956 |
| Planned use | External links on Wikipedia, potential future use for scraping stats |
| Number of IDs in source | 480 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Formatter URL | https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/$1/ |
| Robot and gadget jobs | The list of IDs can be easily scraped with Mix'n'match or similar tools |
| See also | Sports-Reference.com college basketball coach ID (P4751), Sports-Reference.com college basketball player ID (P3696) |
Motivation edit
Sports-Reference.com is a popular stats website frequently used in Wikipedia external links. In addition to accessing overview information about a given school with the formatter URL, these IDs can also be used to access information for a given season just by adding the year; e.g. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/$1/$2.html (where $2 is the year the season ended; e.g. 2020 for the 2019–20 season). These season pages are also frequently linked to on Wikipedia.
Before anyone asks, no, these IDs are not interchangeable with Sports-Reference.com's college football school IDs, so we can't make a property that encompasses both sports. There is at least one instance in which the same school has different IDs in basketball and football (CFB: cumberland, CBB: cumberland-university). –IagoQnsi (talk) 23:26, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
