So You Got the Starter Pack. Now What?

Just downloaded the CFBD Starter Pack? Here's how to go beyond the CSVs using the official Python client to pull live and recent data from the CollegeFootballData API.

Talking Tech: Building a March Madness Model using XGBoost

In this edition of Talking Tech, we'll be building our first basketball model. Specifically, we'll use XGBoost to predict games for March Madness.

Talking Tech: Generating Shot Charts using the Basketball API

We are going to be plotting team shot charts on top of a standard NCAA men's court using Python and the CollegeBasketballData.com API along with a few common Python packages.

Talking Tech: Build an environment for data analysis in 2025

If you follow this blog, chances are that you've seen and perhaps even walked through my guide on building an environment for analysis. That article is from 5 years ago and I still get questions and feedback on it to this day. To be clear, I still think it's a

REST API v2 is now in general availability!

The CFBD API v2 is now publicly available! The free tier has been set at 1000 monthly calls (tiering and call limits subject to change). Documentation is available at apinext.collegefootballdata.com. As previously announced, API v1 will be shut down prior to the start of the 2025 season. In