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by ugexe 4416 days ago
ESPN is not going to license or allow you republication rights to their data. ESPN data is also extremely difficult to sanitize (play by play does not match up with box scores, is just plain wrong, different formats, terrible html).
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This, this, this. I used their (american) football data for a hobby project and it would take 30 minutes to an hour to clean one week's worth of games. Hypothetically, I found the sporting news to have much cleaner data.
Which is really a shame since their app offerings are awful.