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Two New NCAA WBB Data Releases: Rosters and Coaches – Derek Willis

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By Derek Willis
| thescoop.org
This is the most comprehensive set of women’s college basketball players ever publicly released, as far as I can tell, and it includes the features of the previous roster data I’ve published: standardized data on height, position and academic year, as well as identifying the hometowns and countries of nearly every player listed on an NCAA roster.
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First Release of NCAA WBB 2025-26 Roster Data – Derek Willis

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By Derek Willis
| thescoop.org
Derek Willis A few years ago I started publishing roster data for women’s college basketball, thanks to the assistance of students in my Sports Data Analysis and Visualization class at Maryland. The first few times were a painstaking and lengthy process, mostly due to slight but substantive variations in how colleges presented roster information on their websites.
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Interviewing FEC Filings with llm-fecfile – Derek Willis

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By Derek Willis
| thescoop.org
This filing is a fairly typical F99 form used to provide a miscellaneous text communication. The content addresses a compliance issue the committee encountered with their May 2025 monthly report. Specifically, the DC Democratic State Committee acknowledges that a refund to Metro Washington Council AFLCIO was made outside the required 30-day window for confirming whether the original contribution was permissible under federal rules.
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