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Welcome to the nfldb wiki! The following is a list of topics that extend nfldb's API documentation with examples and explanation. I recommend reading the following links in the order in which they are listed. (The links in the reference section can be skimmed and accessed later when you need to look up something specific.)

If you need any help or have found a bug, please open a new issue on nfldb's issue tracker or join us at our IRC channel #nflgame on FreeNode.

• Installation and maintenance
  • Installation
  • Updating nfldb with real time data
• Searching the database
  • The data model
  • An introduction to the query interface
  • Sorting results
  • Disjunctive criteria
  • Aggregate searching
  • Breaking the shackles of the query interface with nfldb's types
  • Exploring primary types: Player, Game, Drive, Play and PlayPlayer
  • Exploring secondary types: FieldPosition, PossessionTime and Clock
  • More examples
• Watching videos of plays
  • Downloading footage
  • Watching plays with nflvid
• Reference
  • Statistical categories