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Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

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Re: Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

#41

This is great. I recently asked AI how many software devs played hockey. It estimated 25k - 50k globally. It also called it a 'prestige sport' which never occurred to me (what with all the guys with missing teeth). But the cost of playing is getting significant. Still the most fun sport to play and watch. Thanks for this - TUI is awesome.

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Re: Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

#42

This is great. I recently asked AI how many software devs played hockey. It estimated 25k - 50k globally. It also called it a 'prestige sport' which never occurred to me (what with all the guys with missing teeth). But the cost of playing is getting significant. Still the most fun sport to play and watch. Thanks for this - TUI is awesome.

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Re: Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

#47

Nice! I was thinking about doing something like this but for cycling, however one of the biggest PIA about building products for sports is all the gating of data. Does the NHL really provide an API for all games? That's nice...

Officially no, but there is undocumented API (if you are commercial, they provide documentation and support) that is public without authentication.

the more I think about it, the more it's actually so weird that the leagues don't have APIs

Re: Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

#48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Officially no, but there is undocumented API (if you are commercial, they provide documentation and support) that is public without authentication.

the more I think about it, the more it's actually so weird that the leagues don't have APIs

The request definitely comes from the leagues' broadcast partners, right? They would want as many eyeballs concentrated in as few places as possible so they can sell ads for more.

Re: Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

#49

It's like the reinvention of Teletext

I think a teletext-like central information service for terminals would see use, because sometimes you just want to check the weather and news without being spammed with a billion ads and JavaScript

Re: Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

#50
I love this - watching the hurricanes game right now! Autorefresh would be nice and then it looks like a small bug in the faceoff percentage as they both say 100% which shouldn't be possible at any point in the game. Also would be sick to be able to enter the team and roster detail page from within the game detail page. But I love this so much and appreciate you for building it :D

edit the face off percentage is still a little off it's updated to show this 87% - 67%. Also followed you on twitter and github.

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