NBA Showdown is a NBA statistics and simulation web application. Utilizing Ruby on Rails, React, and React Redux, NBA Showdown dynamically renders and displays data of any player and any team from 1979 to 2019 as well as simulates a game between any two teams.
- Features all teams and players in the NBA from 1979 to 2019
- Search for and view season totals and averages of any NBA player
- View season totals and averages of any NBA team
- Compare statistics of any two NBA players and any two NBA teams
- Simulate a game between two NBA teams from any season & view the box score of the simulated game
- The data in the reference API, balldontlie API, used to create the back-end did not include season totals for players
- Required mapping over all players and computing their season totals and averages
- Had to account for a player that was traded mid-season (each team played for that year would represent a new instance of a season)
- Function written to compute season totals was an O(n²) algorithm. As a result, running the function took about 36 hours in total.
- Simulation algorithm needed to return accurate and realistic statistics that reflect a player's performance from that season
- Decided on 'Normal Probability Model' as foundation for algorithm
- Used gems Rubystats and Ruby Native Statistics to randomly generate a statistic based on normal distribution (relative to player's season performance)
- balldontlie API
- Abraham Rabinowitz
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