basketball

Motivation

With so many games each day, it'll be good to know which games are potentially the "most competitive". This could help choose which game to watch.

How

One way to measure competitive game could be differential in WIN%. The lower the differential of WIN% between two teams, the more the chances of those teams being evenly matched.

See https://old.reddit.com/r/BasketballGM/comments/rt7szv/monthly_suggestions_thread/hty3yug/ - if you have some legendary player, his player profile page is huge. It'd be cool to be able to condense it into a small summary, maybe similar to a trading card, and let that be downloaded as an image.

Figuring out the design is the hard part. Both making it look nice, and figuring out how to best co

Printing isn't great. Use the logger!

Hi there - I have noticed there are some inconsistencies with the game spreads.

Here is an example:

In the first 3 rows, powerhouses like Gonzaga, Kansas, and Baylor are the home team and heavily favored. The home_team_spread column is negative.

In rows 4-6, Michigan, Duke, and Illinois are the home team and heavy favorites, but this time the home_team_spread column is positive.