NFL Scorigami Search
Scorigami Homepage
What is NFL Scorigami and why did I make this my final? NFL Scorigami is a simple way of describing each unique ending score to a professional football game. This has no impact on the game whatsoever–it’s just a database that shows how many times a certain score has happened, when the last time it happened was, or even if a certain score exists. I made this my project because I’m a huge sports guy. Not only am I a huge sports guy, but I’m a huge sports stathead. Something about scrolling through websites and charts and tables looking at numbers for individuals, their teams, comparing them to other teams, other players, and the history of the sport is an absolute blast to me.
So, since I enjoy this so much, I decided to make a place where users can explore the NFL score database. While Scorigami isn’t something I made, there’s no simple way to search the database, which is where my website comes into play. What did I do? For starters, since I was not confident in my API-calling skills, I immediately went for the designing first (which I know probably wasn’t the smartest idea, but I did it anyway). I wanted the fun and joking atmosphere that Scorigami creates to become somewhat serious, so I made the website look professional and attempted to give it a serious tone, as if it were truly impacting the game of football. I created a mockup of what I wanted my homepage and overall vibe of my website to be.
Original Scorigami Homepage Mockup
Since there was no true API for what I was wanting, I had to make my own API. I used Pro Football Reference’s database, that gave me the count, the last time it happened, and the scores I needed to identify them. I scraped all of the data from the site into a .csv format, then reformatted it into a .json file. I then made a simple call in my javascript to the json file which is being hosted on the same server as the actual website. Through this, the user is able to enter in a winning and losing score and search 1000+ lines of the .json file.
Scorigami Database Search Page
