About us
Sports data,
without the paywall.
The SportsDataverse started in 2021 with a simple frustration: sports data was either locked behind expensive commercial feeds or scattered across sites that could disappear overnight. The tools that existed were brilliant but siloed — one package per sport, one language per community, no shared conventions.
So we built the connective tissue. Today the SportsDataverse is a family of 26 open-source packages and data repositories maintained by contributors across the sports analytics community, founded and led by Saiem Gilani. Everything ships under permissive licenses: the scrapers, the processed data, the models, and the infrastructure that keeps it all fresh every night.
The initiative made its public debut at the 2021 Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference, where the SportsDataverse Initiative paper won the open-track reproducible research competition.
If you've computed EPA for a college football game in R, pulled women's basketball play-by-play in Python, or built a win-probability chart from free data — there's a good chance the SportsDataverse was underneath it.
What we build
Packages
Sport-specific libraries in R, Python, and Node.js — cfbfastR, hoopR, wehoop, fastRhockey, sportsdataverse-py, sportsdataverse.js and friends — with consistent loaders for schedules, rosters, box scores, and play-by-play.
Browse the packages →Open data
Nightly pipelines scrape, process, and publish season-level datasets as versioned releases: over 120 million rows of play-by-play and stats across eight leagues, loadable in one function call.
See the numbers →Models
Expected points, win probability, opponent-adjusted team ratings, and player value — built in the open, validated against real games, and shipped alongside the raw data they're trained on.
Read the research →Leagues covered
Find us
Support
Keep the data free
Everything here is free to use — and costs real money to keep fresh. Donations pay for the servers that scrape, process, and serve the data every night. Signing up for DigitalOcean through our referral link gives your new account free credit and sends a slice back to the project at no cost to you.
Looking for the wider world — nflverse, CollegeFootballData, conferences and courses? Browse resources →
Get in touch
Is there something you would like to work on in the SportsDataverse? Whether it's related to work or just a casual conversation, we are here and ready to listen. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us.