Visualizing 22 years of Premier League data (1992-2013).

(Python)Visualizing 22 years of Premier League data  scraped from Wikipedia.

This post work focuses on visualizing the data of Major  Premier League clubs 12 clubs which are represented  above by colored lines. I Scraped the Data from Wikipedia because i was unable to find raw and reliable data containing match data of 22 years at a  place. Also, it is difficult to do get in match details like the Top goal Scorer and top goals scored data from different sources.

Inspired by the Anna Powell-Smith's work http://www.thestoryoftheseason.com/

 work on timeline of  Premier Series.

 I came up with idea of drawing this graph using d3.js  being a noob at  d3js  i am  was comfortable in using plotly 

I used plotly which has a python library to plot the graph on Web.

I wrote this script to scrape data from Wikipedia Tables

The script I wrote to scrape the data from Wikipedia can be found  here

 I am planning to write a detailed blog post on the entire 'scraping' part of the project in near future.

Script is completely in python I am using Beautiful Soup to scrape the Wikipedia pages .

this  Github rep contains all the files i used to create the plots .

the following plot shows the cumulative matches won per year by the teams

it  shows the scoring trajectory of the teams .

the graph below shows that Manchester United has a constant growth  curve  where as Manchester City  has steep growing curve