NBA Stats Capstone Project

Capstone Project 1 for Springboard

Introduction

https://jerryhsu-balldontlie.herokuapp.com/ This project uses the ball don't lie API to gather NBA stats and display them in different pages. Namely, this site includes:

• A homepage with recent NBA games
• Game pages with the box score
• Team pages with their latest games
• Player pages with stats of latest games and season average
• Pages for signing up, logging in, and editing the user

Libraries & Installation

All Python libraries are located in the file requirements.txt.

pip install - requirements.txt

Note: The rendered webpages use JS libraries that reference Bootstrap, Font Awesome, jQuery, and Axios

API

The balldontlie API can be used to query NBA stats and information, updated once every ~10 minutes. The API can be accessed via applications like Insomnia or Postman

Players

GET https://www.balldontlie.io/api/v1/players

Teams

GET https://www.balldontlie.io/api/v1/teams

Games

GET https://www.balldontlie.io/api/v1/games

Stats

GET https://www.balldontlie.io/api/v1/stats

Season Averages

GET https://www.balldontlie.io/api/v1/season_averages

For more information, go refer to [the website](https://www.balldontlie.io/#introduction)

Pages

• Pages for signing up, logging in, and editing the user
  • Signup requires a username, email, and password
  • Signing in allows users to "like" and add record notes about their favorite teams.
  • Users can update their username and email in the Edit User page
• A homepage with recent NBA games
  • Includes links to the respective team pages and game details
• Game pages with the box score
  • Includes links to the respective team pages and player pages
• Team pages with their latest games
  • Includes links to game pages
  • Also includes a section for (signed in users) to add notes about the team
• Player pages with stats of latest games and season average
  • Includes links to team page
  • Also includes a section for (signed in users) to add notes about the player

Endpoints

Endpoints can be roughly categorized by 1) User 2) Show 3) Like/Unlike

• User
  • /login
  • /logout
  • /user/edit - displays a form for editing a User's username or email
• Show
  • / - returns a homepage listing recently played games
  • /user/{user_id} - returns lists of user's favorite teams and players
  • /player/{player_id} - returns the player page or posts a user note about the player
  • /team/{team_id} - returns the team page or posts a user note about the team
  • /game/{game_id} - returns the game page
• Like / Unlike
  • /user/{user_id}/fav_player - post/delete routes adding/removing a favorite player
  • /user/{user_id}/fav_team - post/delete routes adding/removing a favorite team

Technologies

This site uses a Flask stack and includes these libraries:

• PostgreSQL/Flask-SQLAlchemy
• bcrypt/Flask-Bcrypt
• WTForms/Flask-WTF
• Requests
• Bootstrap
• Font Awesome
• jQuery
• Axios