NBA Draft Tools

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Why I made it

I needed practice creating my own algorithms, so I thought why not design a test that could sort out prospects in the NBA draft for you? I was surprised at how accurate the NBA Big Board creator was in predicting fans' rankings of players in the draft.

I wanted even more practice with algorithms, so I built an NBA comparison generator to let casual basketball players see what NBA player most closely matched their style of play.

What I learned

I made both draft tools using Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery. Free NBA data from an API was surprisingly hard to find, so I created my own JSONs, studied some basic statistics, and cleaned the data myself. I learned how to create my own search function and how to work with higher order functions on my JSON files like forEach and sort.

I also had an experienced software engineer reach out to me, and I learned how to collaborate with other programmers through Git.