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Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

#101

Post by alexanat »

komali2 wrote: post #83
jerf wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found my interest in sports went up when I understood the rules a bit more deeply, and some of the reason why. For instance, basketball for a long time looked really silly to me, and I thought I knew the rules because "we had played some in gym class", but it turns out that I knew almost nothing about it. There's a lot more to the rules about who can be where, and a lot of rules around what your feet are doing and…

Same with the rules, especially for basketball. However, this just made all basketball games interesting to me. To this day, I really cannot empathize with "having a team." I get that it comes off as neckbeardy or holier than thou, but it just seems like arbitrary tribalism - maybe because I moved around a lot as a kid(from BIG SPORT cities, too! Green Bay to Houston to San Francisco), but I never really understood w…

I think it has to do with the human desire to be apart of something bigger than ourselves.

Major sporting organizations (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, etc...) are very good at selling stories of players/teams and having people emotionally connect with players/teams at that level. This is what leads to favorite players which can lead to favorite teams.

Another aspect is region. For example, I've grown up in Seattle since I was a toddler. Everyone around me is a Seahawks fan. I am a Seahawks fan. It'd be too much to follow multiple teams for me, but some do.

This gives me something in common with those around me, and having team spirit and dressing up on Sundays is fun. Hanging out with friends on Sundays, watching football, and shooting the shit is a lot of fun and sometimes the only time we can all make to see each other as we get older and our lives drift in their different directions. That bit was a little off tangent but it does help illustrate why someone may like sports.

I'll agree that learning the rules really helps. When you're watching two different teams line up against each other, attempting to read what the other team is trying to do and executing against it in real time is exhilarating! There are several aspects of the game that have to be accounted for on every single play. It's a mental, physical, and emotional game.

Hope this helps you (or any reader) understand why someone may enjoy to watch sports. Go Hawks! :)

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

#102

Post by exclusiv »

komali2 wrote: post #83
jerf wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found my interest in sports went up when I understood the rules a bit more deeply, and some of the reason why. For instance, basketball for a long time looked really silly to me, and I thought I knew the rules because "we had played some in gym class", but it turns out that I knew almost nothing about it. There's a lot more to the rules about who can be where, and a lot of rules around what your feet are doing and…

Same with the rules, especially for basketball. However, this just made all basketball games interesting to me. To this day, I really cannot empathize with "having a team." I get that it comes off as neckbeardy or holier than thou, but it just seems like arbitrary tribalism - maybe because I moved around a lot as a kid(from BIG SPORT cities, too! Green Bay to Houston to San Francisco), but I never really understood w…

It makes it more interesting to have a team versus being a casual observer. Traditionally you end up being a fan of your local team because that's what your family grew up on and those are the games you had access to each week.

Some people tend to like specific players which shuffles their teams around, sometimes from year to year. I think this has been a change over the years - each league wants more viewership on all their games, not just the bigger markets. So you can drive that by 1) running and promoting fantasy games and 2) promoting individual players.

If you play fantasy football you end up shouting at the TV for games you normally wouldn't care about. But then you end up liking some of these players so you kind of root for their team too.

Put some money on a game or try fantasy sports if you like sports but don't have any horses. It can be addicting but it's fun, especially in an office pool. I would have never watched Houston Texan games but I had Hopkins & Fuller and it was cool watching DeShaun Watson emerge from the backup role (really unfortunate he got knocked out of the season recently though) and they had some unbelievable games.

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

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Post by gowld »

teddyh wrote: post #95
jpeeler wrote: post #45

First of all, cool project. Looks very nice. And kudos to nba.com for making their data so easily accessible via JSON (and perhaps other methods, didn't look too closely). Personally, I have little interest in sports in general. And I find that the interest ratio is much lower with those interested in technical fields than others. However, obviously proven by this project and life experience, there are definitely tho…

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/physical.html Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and are determinedly anti-physical. Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV. Further, hackers avoid most team sports like the plague. Volleyball was long a notable exception, perhaps because it's non-contact…

ESR has long confused "himself" with "hackers", which has had a negative partially-self-fulfilling effect on the community.

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

#104

Post by FiveSquared »

njarboe wrote: post #100
jpeeler wrote: post #45

First of all, cool project. Looks very nice. And kudos to nba.com for making their data so easily accessible via JSON (and perhaps other methods, didn't look too closely). Personally, I have little interest in sports in general. And I find that the interest ratio is much lower with those interested in technical fields than others. However, obviously proven by this project and life experience, there are definitely tho…

I have watched sports on-and-off all my life, but was never really that interested or involved. My girlfriend got really interested in the Warriors over the past 3 or 4 years and learned about all the players. I started to watch more often and, following her interest, for the first time learned every players' name and could identify every one of them on the court all the time. This makes watching completely different…

I personally grew up with the Warriors, being rasied in SV. I started getting intersted in sports at the same time as your GF, and now I am a super fan of everything NBA.

BTW, Lets Go Warriors!

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

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Post by FiveSquared »

lostgame wrote: post #80
jpeeler wrote: post #45

First of all, cool project. Looks very nice. And kudos to nba.com for making their data so easily accessible via JSON (and perhaps other methods, didn't look too closely). Personally, I have little interest in sports in general. And I find that the interest ratio is much lower with those interested in technical fields than others. However, obviously proven by this project and life experience, there are definitely tho…

For some reason, while most sports have never interested me, or most 'geek' types I've known, basketball has always seemed to be an unusual exception to the rule, myself included. I don't personally follow, or play, team sports. But if I did, it'd absolutely, most certainly, be basketball. I wonder why that is?

I always loved basketall, since my family loved. I aalso played basketball as a child, since I was always very tall (6"1' at age 13!). I was sometimes good, sometimes bad. Very streaky.

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

#106

Post by selectodude »

komali2 wrote: post #99
ams6110 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's our tribal nature. We like to be part of a group, and have enemies that are not part of our group.

Yes, but why don't I feel that? I'd like to, for sports. I think.

I find the tribalism comes from going out and watching the game with strangers that also are excited about the same thing. Have some beers, loosen up, get into it.

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

#107

Post by edgarvaldes »

severine wrote: post #90
edgarvaldes wrote: post #29

Any similar project for soccer fans?

Take a look at soccer-cli: https://github.com/architv/soccer-cli Show HN (7 points, 798 days ago, 4 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10153993

Thanks for the response!

Re: NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal

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Post by sn9 »

teddyh wrote: post #95
jpeeler wrote: post #45

First of all, cool project. Looks very nice. And kudos to nba.com for making their data so easily accessible via JSON (and perhaps other methods, didn't look too closely). Personally, I have little interest in sports in general. And I find that the interest ratio is much lower with those interested in technical fields than others. However, obviously proven by this project and life experience, there are definitely tho…

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/physical.html Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and are determinedly anti-physical. Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV. Further, hackers avoid most team sports like the plague. Volleyball was long a notable exception, perhaps because it's non-contact…

More recently, it would seem that you could add various barbell-using disciplines to the list of physical training areas programmers are drawn to. Powerlifting, weightlifting, etc.
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