New Interface to the Sports Schedules

New Interface to the Sports Schedules

You can now feed arguments to the script that generates the schedules, for example to always get the schedule for a particular team. Suppose you are only interested in the NHL's Montreal Canadiens (a fine choice, by the way). The following URL will retrieve a schedule of upcoming Canadiens games:

      http://www.cs.rochester.edu/cgi-bin/ferguson/nhl?mtl
    
Suppose you like the Canadiens and hate the Boston Bruins and so are only interested in games between them. The following will get you what you want:
      http://www.cs.rochester.edu/cgi-bin/ferguson/nhl?mtl%20bos
    
The ``%20'' is a space in URL-speak.

For other leagues you would use change the part before the question mark (ie., ``nhl''), and other teams can be specified by giving their three letter code after the question mark. A complete list of codes is available by requesting:

      http://www.cs.rochester.edu/cgi-bin/ferguson/nhl?-help
    

If you like playing with this, you should probably consider getting the source distribution.


Last change: 23 Feb 1998
George Ferguson, with thanks to johns@hpwaleu.wal.hp.com.