This repo will analyse whether the number of injuries a football player experiences throughout their career increases after moving to West Ham.

To run, you must specify via CLI the player name of interest (in lower case, hyphen separated), along with their transfermarkt ID. I plan to add utility for determining the ID from the name at some point.

An example of a valid run configuration is

python dataScrape.py andy-carroll 48066

This project is supported with a pipeline provided by Gitlab which makes use of a specific gitlab-runner hosted on my PC. This saves me costs on outsourcing to a cloud provider, and allows me to use a local image.

If you make a commit to this repo, and wish to trigger the pipeline, my runners will need to be running - otherwise the pipeline job will stall!

The use of a local gitlab-runner is not optimal for co-development, but it's not something I've used before, so I saw this project as an opportunity to try it out. In future I may implement a better solution for CI.

This project is far from finished. I am slowly working on it in my spare time, but please appreciate this is not a "released" version, or an accurate representation of the highest level to which I can code (well...)

tldr; this is a work in progress!

• utility for looking up tfmarkt ID from player name
• accept list of players as arg
• investigate gitlab runners - if we use our own image, where will we store it, and will it cost money
• tighten security in general
• tidy dataScrape.py into functions, it's a massive mess
• write proper tests
• add mechanism to scrape multiple pages of injury history (so plots are actually correct)