Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this whole “Guardians – Red Sox” thing, and I figured I’d jot down what I did. It’s not rocket science, but maybe it’ll help someone, or at least give you a chuckle at my struggles.
First, I needed to figure out what I actually wanted to do. Just saying “Guardians – Red Sox” is pretty vague, right? I’m a big baseball fan, so I thought about maybe comparing the two teams, looking at stats, or maybe even trying to predict a game outcome. I decided to keep it relatively simple and focus on pulling some recent game data for both teams.
So, I fired up my browser. My go-to is usually just a quick search. Typed in something like “Guardians recent games” and then did the same for the Red Sox. I bounced around a few different sports sites.
The next step was, well, actually getting the data. I considered several options, that is copy and paste manually, or even use a specific sports API or tool. But after reviewing the data, it was pretty easy to manually copy and paste, I’m not a programmer, so no fancy code here. I just opened up a simple spreadsheet and started copying and pasting scores, dates, and opponents. It was a bit tedious, I won’t lie. Took me a good chunk of time, and I probably messed up a few entries along the way, had to double-check a couple of times.
- Column 1: Team (Guardians or Red Sox)
- Column 2: Date
- Column 3: Opponent
- Column 4: Result (Win or Loss)
- Column 5: Our Score
- Column 6: Their Score
Once I had all that data dumped into the spreadsheet, I started to play around with it a little. I sorted it by date, so I could see the most recent games first. Then I did a little bit of basic calculating. You know, figuring out win-loss records over, like, the last 10 games for each team. Nothing fancy, just counting up wins and losses.
I looked at the head to head, it was pretty interesting.
In the end, after spending hours pulling all of this together, I’ve got a better sense of how both teams are doing. It’s not exactly groundbreaking analysis, but it was a fun little project. I did it!