Alright, so I wanted to keep track of the England rugby union fixtures. Sounds simple, right? Well, it turned out to be a bit more involved than I initially thought, but I got there in the end. Here’s how I did it.
First, I started by, you know, just trying to find the fixtures. I mean, how hard could it be? I did a basic search, and well, there’s a ton of information out there. Different websites, some with partial lists, some with dates that seemed a bit off. It was a bit of a mess, to be honest.
Finding a Reliable Source
So, step one was definitely figuring out where to get the actual correct information. I needed a single source of truth, something I could rely on. After a bit of digging around and comparing different sites, I decided that going directly to sports websites would be a safe bet for this kind of information.
Getting the Data
Once I felt like I found my good sources, then came the slightly trickier part: getting the fixture data in a format that I could actually use. You see, I didn’t want to just look at the fixtures; I wanted to, like, store them. Track them. Maybe even do some silly analysis later on.
I thought I have to get this information, so the most simple way is to copy all the information and store it somewhere I could use later.
Putting It All Together
I simply created a plain text file. And started copying and pasting all the fixtures with dates and times I needed.
After I finished copy-pasting, I tried to organize things like this.
- Date: [Date of Fixture]
- Time: [Time of Fixture]
- Opponent: [Team England is playing]
- Location: [where are they playing]
And kept doing that for every single fixture I could find. It’s not super fancy, but hey, it works! Now I have a single, easily accessible place to check all of the England rugby fixtures. No more digging through multiple websites.
It’s not perfect, and maybe someday I’ll build something fancier. But for now, this totally does the job. It was a bit of manual work, sure, but at least now I’ve got a system, and I’m in control of my own rugby fixture tracking destiny!
