CURL is returning junk
config CURLOPT_ENCODING for curl, then it will be OK.
<?phpfunction curl($url) { $ch = curl_init(); // Initialising cURL curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // Setting cURL's URL option with the $url variable passed into the function curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // Setting cURL's option to return the webpage data curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING ,""); $data = curl_exec($ch); // Executing the cURL request and assigning the returned data to the $data variable curl_close($ch); // Closing cURL return $data; // Returning the data from the function}$output = curl('https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2017-mlb-predictions/games/');echo $output;?>