Thanks! At the moment I'm only focusing on soccer because that's what I know best : ) However, I can easily see this being extended to other team sports.
The main bottleneck is obtaining data around the teams that a player played for. Right now I'm depending on wikipedia because the soccer data is very rich and easy to parse. I'm not sure this is the case for other sports. The data could always be crowdsourced if there aren't any good data sources for other sports.
I wanted to extend on the initial premise by allowing users to define and share arbitrary constraints for a soccer starting 11 and automate verification of a squad given the set of constraints.
It needs a little bit of polish but overall I really learned a lot working on it. Typescript + React is wonderful combination. It was my first time working with Django and it was a pleasant experience.
Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
We spent the better part of an hour coming up with our own starting 11. After careful deliberation we arrived at our final squad ...only to discover that Kevin de Bruyne played for Chelsea at some point(in our defense his stint at Chelsea was forgettable...).
The entire process was extremely entertaining but I was left disaffected by the manual verification process. We had to think of a player then run over to Wikipedia to peruse the list of clubs that they played for. I thought it would be fun to create a web app that:
Lets users define and share arbitrary constraints for a starting 11
Automate verification of a squad given the set of constraints.
Do play around with it and any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
The main bottleneck is obtaining data around the teams that a player played for. Right now I'm depending on wikipedia because the soccer data is very rich and easy to parse. I'm not sure this is the case for other sports. The data could always be crowdsourced if there aren't any good data sources for other sports.