The only sources I can find right now are not formatted in a way that is easy to manipulate in Excel/R, obviously, and the one site I've found wants to charge $2,500/yr.

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Posted by TDawg1313

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Posted on 1/26/15 at 8:39 pm to alabamabuckeye

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the one site I've found wants to charge $2,500/yr.

That was the site that I used last year. They just started charging for it this year. I looked for alternatives, but couldn't find anything.

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Posted by gaetti15

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Posted on 1/26/15 at 8:39 pm to alabamabuckeye

go to r/datasets ask them there...somebody on there found a play by play for the NFL...I'm sure somebody there has a link

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Posted by SystemsGo

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Posted on 1/26/15 at 8:43 pm to gaetti15

cfbstats.com doesn't have it?

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Posted by Bestbank Tiger

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Posted on 1/26/15 at 8:45 pm to gaetti15

Get a computer whiz to write a screenscraper program that can extract the data from a website and populate an Excel spreadsheet.

It isn't that hard to do (for a computer guy, a non-techie couldn't do it in 1000 years).

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Posted by alabamabuckeye

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Posted on 1/26/15 at 8:45 pm to SystemsGo

I haven't found PBP data on cfbstats.com. SportSource is the site I referenced in the OP, and they charge a shitload. Right now my only option is to import data from the Alabama athletics website, which isn't formatted the way I need it to be. I might try learning web scraping with R, but I want to exhaust other options before doing that.

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Posted by tigercross

Member since Feb 2008

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Posted on 1/26/15 at 10:08 pm to alabamabuckeye

I don't know what format your current data is, nor what you want the final data set to look like. But check out import.io. It is great for scraping data from sites.

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