NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by dogruck on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:15AM (#15643061)

Fun project idea: implementation of the stats.nba.com API which provides simulated, or fantasy games.

Two use cases:

1. Why wait for the actual NBA games? Instead, follow a simulated league that “plays” as many games as you want to consume (but the games are played at real world speed).

2. You, and your friends, are the managers! Follow along as the results of your management decisions are played out.

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by cloudkj on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @11:58AM (#15645054)

This is a neat idea. You could have a video game like NBA 2k act as the frontend for the data coming out of stats.nba.com backend, and simulate - in realtime - the actual games as they progress. If the latency between the frontend and the backend is reduced enough, you'll effectively have a "live" game played by simulated players that is more or less a replacement for the real thing. You could then charge people to watch your simulated games.

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by jackstraw14 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:17AM (#15643074)

Like Football Manager?

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by dumbmatter on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:20AM (#15643087)

Or, shameless self promotion:

https://basketball-gm.com/

https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm

Currently no terminal UI, sadly. PRs welcome!

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by ccmonnett on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @12:44PM (#15645604)

I should have known the basketball-gm guy was on HN! Awesome work dude.

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by dogruck on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:00AM (#15643371)

Maybe you can adapt this NBA GO implementation to consume data from your software?

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by Q6T46nT668w6i3m on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:20AM (#15643085)

Or GM mode from NBA2k.

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Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal by dogruck on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:00AM (#15643377)

I’ve heard of NBA2k, but never played it.

Are you able to follow the simulated games without using your game console? Or, asked another way, does it run in the cloud?

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