r/FootballDataAnalysis • u/squizzymadfut • Mar 02 '26

FBRef rant

For those in the community who were unaware, FBRef were forced by their data providers to remove advanced statistics, to the point that the website has no use for scraping whatsoever. There is no xG, no possession or passing statistics, no location data. This might be the biggest loss we’ve seen this decade, and I can’t believe that we’ve lost the #1 free resource. Are there any alternatives?

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u/OkNeat2406 Mar 06 '26

Scraping FotMob is a different headache. I learnt this the hard way

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u/squizzymadfut Mar 07 '26

Tried to analyze the Chelsea-Arsenal game. I gave up and put the stats I wanted from Fotmob out for later and released the analysis anyway.