[FotMob] Get the referee for upcoming matches

[richard-senior]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It's not a problem per se...
fotmob.read_schedule() does not seem to return the name of the referee where it is available
See this: https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/matches/afc-bournemouth-vs-nottingham-forest/2y4tjb#4506603
At the top of the page you can see the referee is (was) Craig Pawson

It is possible to scrape this from the matches page by getting the NEXT_DATA json element from the html response
So I think it should be available from the matches API.. not that I can access that anymore.

If you could have a look that would be great..
According to scikit-learn randomforrest.. Referee has some 8% bearing on match outcome :)

Describe the solution you'd like
fotmob.read_schedule() should return referee name where it is available..

Thanks for reading this..

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[probberechts]

This is the JSON of the Bournemouth - Nottingham Forest game: matchDetails.json. It indeed includes the referee. Would this allow you to implement it?

[richard-senior]

PS

You can get historical referee data from footballdata.co.uk for UK matches.
This allows you to train estimators using referee.
And then for upcoming matches you can predict where you have referee.

[richard-senior]

This is the JSON of the Bournemouth - Nottingham Forest game: matchDetails.json. It indeed includes the referee. Would this allow you to implement it?

Yes.. I am currently screenscraping fotmob myself, but I would much rather re-use your work!