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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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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.

Like Football Manager?

Or, shameless self promotion:

https://basketball-gm.com/

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

Currently no terminal UI, sadly. PRs welcome!

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

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

Or GM mode from NBA2k.

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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