List of used BF Selection names

[sniffer66]

This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a list of the exact selection names used by BF in the market names as listed in BA Guardian

Specifically looking for tennis i.e Full name to abbreviated name. So Joao Sousa, is listed as J Sousa in the market name, Pedro Sousa is listed as P Sousa. Double barrelled and hyphenated names are usually shortened

I'm trying to do some Text Comparison rules in my automation but hitting a hump with these as it's mismatching. Could ideally do with a lookup table to convert them

[Anbell]

This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a list of the exact selection names used by BF in the market names as listed in BA Guardian

Specifically looking for tennis i.e Full name to abbreviated name. So Joao Sousa, is listed as J Sousa in the market name, Pedro Sousa is listed as P Sousa. Double barrelled and hyphenated names are usually shortened

I'm trying to do some Text Comparison rules in my automation but hitting a hump with these as it's mismatching. Could ideally do with a lookup table to convert them

This is a notoriously difficult problem in tennis that I dont think anyone has solved. I think that I even read that BF aren't even internally consistent within the same event.

[sniffer66]

This is a bit of a long shot but does anyone know of a list of the exact selection names used by BF in the market names as listed in BA Guardian

Specifically looking for tennis i.e Full name to abbreviated name. So Joao Sousa, is listed as J Sousa in the market name, Pedro Sousa is listed as P Sousa. Double barrelled and hyphenated names are usually shortened

I'm trying to do some Text Comparison rules in my automation but hitting a hump with these as it's mismatching. Could ideally do with a lookup table to convert them

This is a notoriously difficult problem in tennis that I dont think anyone has solved. I think that I even read that BF aren't even internally consistent within the same event.

Ha, that doesn't fill me with confidence. I assumed that BF would at least standardise across events. Looks like I will have to resort to scraping the days matches and grabbing the names from the BF website