Groovy March Madness

So now that the annual basketball tournament is underway, I thought I'd share my latest tool for becoming master of your tournament pool. Here's a neat little groovy script to extract the stats for a team.

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder
import groovyx.net.http.Method
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.TEXT

class TeamStats extends GroovyTestCase {

    def void test_parseTeamStat() {
        def page = getPage('http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/teams/stats/NC/regularseason/yearly/SCORING')
        def playerTable = page.body.div.table.tr.td.div.div.table
        playerTable.tr.list().each { row ->

            row.td.list().each { column ->
                print "${column}\t"
            }
            println ""
            

        }
    }

    def getPage(url) {

        def page
        def http = new HTTPBuilder(url)
        http.request(Method.POST,TEXT) { req ->
            response.success = { resp,reader ->
		//println resp.headergroup.allHeaders()
                def parser = new org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser()
                page = new XmlSlurper(parser).parse(reader)

            }
            response.failure = {
                // do something here
            }
        }
        return page
    }

}
I take these stats, dump them into a database, and create a few graphs and stat comparisons to figure out my picks. Problem is that I went with my 'gut' rather than the stats.