Create Your Own Positive Expected Value Odds Scraper using Python — Part 1

Releasing a new part of this series each day until we have a fully functioning scraper

Introduction

A few months ago, I started a series of tutorials dedicated to creating an arbitrage alert scanner using python.

Due to unforeseen circumstance (laziness) I never completed that project.

Looking back I feel as though it was a slightly ambitious endeavor that imitatively did not work out. Although I do want to thank you guys for the crazy support on those articles.

Given the support was great, I have decided to dip back into this challenge but instead make it much easier to complete.

The Plan

I am currently on a mission to write 30 articles in 30 days on medium. I am currently on Day 14 and let me tell you this is proving difficult to achieve.

But, I had the bright idea to instead of coming up with Individual stories each day I could post a series of articles and at the end come out with a fully functioning scraper.

Each day I will update with the current progress along with new code as well as any considerations or challenges I run into.

Scraper Details

To make this as easy as possible the scraper will just focus on the Shots on Target Markets for Premier League Games, as I believe there is quite a big opportunity within these markets…