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Scrape Team-level "Batting Against" stats from Baseball-Reference
- This PR adds a function, related tests and documentation for capturing team-level "batting against" stats from Baseball-Reference.
- The page this function scrapes includes both team-level and player-level tables, though the scope of this PR is only team-level.
- I attempted to follow the same implementation pattern as other functions utilizing the BRef session singleton.
- I find this to be useful data to evaluate pitching performance in the same terms as batting performance.
- In looking at other functions, I don't see that this repo takes an opinion on reporting team names in a consistent format, so this function simply reports the full team name as seen on the source page (without the a href URL content)
Is there anyone who can assist in debugging or re-running the failed check on this PR? Looks like python -m scripts.statcast_timing took longer than 30 seconds, causing the failure result. I don't know how relevant this is, but I haven't been able to reproduce a run locally greater than 18 seconds. Moreover, my changes shouldn't be utilizing or impacting statcast calls, hence why I was hoping to see how a second run performed. However, I do not see the option to re-run in any of the areas where the GitHub docs indicate, likely indicating I don't have permissions to do so.
Yeah, that one just kind of trips randomly sometimes when scraping takes longer than usual. Just manually reran.
I'd have a few other years tested
I'm glad you mentioned this - trying against some older seasons demonstrated different data patterns than the expectations from newer seasons. I'll make the appropriate adjustments.
Thank you @tjburch for your thorough review - changes pushed and ready for re-review.