NAME

Football::League::Match - A single footie match

SYNOPSIS

        use Football::League::Match;

        my $match = Football::League::Match->from_soccerdata($data);

        my $final_year_of_season = $match->final_year_of_season;
        
        my $division = $match->division;
        
        my $hometeam = $match->home_team;
        my $awayteam = $match->away_team;

        my $homescore = $match->home_score;
        my $awaycore = $match->away_score;
        my $result = $match->result;

        my Time::Piece $date = $match->date;

DESCRIPTION

This will create a little object with when passed data about a footie match.

Currently, the only format the data can ve passed in is that defined by that supplied by

http://www.soccerdata.com

METHODS

final_year_of_season

        my $fyos = $match->final_year_of_season;

This will return the final year of the season in which the match took place.

divison

        my $division = $match->division;

This is the divison the match took place in.

home_team

        my $home_team = $match->home_team;

The home team.

away_team

        my $away_team = $match->away_team;

The away team.

home_score

        my $home_score = $match->home_score;

The number of goals the home team scored.

away_score

        my $away_score = $match->away_score;

The number of goals the away team scored.

result

        my $result = $match->result;

This is the result in 2-1 type form.

date

        my Time::Piece $date = $match->date;

This is the date of the match as a Time::Piece object.

ADDITIONAL INFO

soccerdata data format

The data supplied by soccerdata is in the form:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7

1 = final year of season (4 digit) 2 = division (P/1/2/3) 3 = home team (12 xharacters) 4 = home score (2 digits) 5 = away team (12 characters) 6 = away score (2 digits) 7 = match date (YYYYMMDD)

TODO

Well, this isn't really an inspired (or inspiring) moudle. As you may (or may not) guess, this is part of A Bigger Picture.

o Parse different match formats, perhaps screen scraped from some site every saturday night.

BUGS

Craig McLaughlan has a lot to answer for. Mona, mostly.

SHOWING YOUR APPRECIATION

There was a thread on london.pm mailing list about working in a vacumn - that it was a bit depressing to keep writing modules but never get any feedback. So, if you use and like this module then please send me an email and make my day.

All it takes is a few little bytes.

(Leon wrote that, not me!)

SEE ALSO

http://www.soccerdata.com

AUTHOR

Stray Toaster, <coder@stray-toaster.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003 by Stray Toaster

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Football::League::Match

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Football::League::Match