Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project by simpfai on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:53AM (#25701957)

I built football11challenge.com after spending a ridiculous amount of time solving this challenge on twitter: https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1250066001821130759

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!

Here's an example of a "challenge": https://football11challenge.com/challenge/601246266

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Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project by pletsch on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:03PM (#25702056)

This is really cool. Are you planning to add different sports? Would love to see Hockey.

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Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project by simpfai on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:15AM (#25716133)

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.

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