Trouble using urlread with ESPN MLB standings

I'm trying to use 'urlread' to load MLB standings from ESPN. When I enter urlread('http://proxy.espn.com/mlb/standings?year=2016&month=april'), the url for the April 2016 standings, I get a bunch of code and I can't quite figure out how to separate the data I want from it, that data being the wins, losses, pct, and GB for the NL Central.

Answer 1

[Nikhil Sreekumar]

Hi there,

There is a file exchange submission, GET HTML Table Data into MATLAB that might help you out with this scenario.

I just used the code with the above submission as below and was able to get the table:

web('http://proxy.espn.com/mlb/standings?year=2016&month=april');
getTableFromWeb
myTableData = getTableFromWeb(1)

Please provide feedback to the submission in case you have any in the File Exchange page.

Thanks

Nikhil