Life & fun · September 23, 2023
Basketball Play Designer
In a company hackathon this weekend, I thought it would be fun to build a basketball play designer. Essentially, you enter some information about the type of play you want, and it generates a play following these requirements. I was imagining it might be useful for stuff like: 1. Designing personalized plays for first-time coaches: "Give me a play that gets my shooting guard an open three-pointer. My shooting guard shoots the best from the right wing, and my point guard has a weak left hand. My center sets great screens, so have my center set an off-ball screen for my shooting guard." 2.…
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In a company hackathon this weekend, I thought it would be fun to build a basketball play designer. Essentially, you enter some information about the type of play you want, and it generates a play following these requirements. I was imagining it might be useful for stuff like: 1. Designing personalized plays for first-time coaches: "Give me a play that gets my shooting guard an open three-pointer. My shooting guard shoots the best from the right wing, and my point guard has a weak left hand. My center sets great screens, so have my center set an off-ball screen for my shooting guard." 2. Brainstorming novel plays for long-time coaches: "Generate a novel play out of the UCLA set." It is loaded in with an example play, so make sure to hit the buttons to generate new plays with the entered information. The animation generation is based on the play-by-play and is a bit finicky, so you can try to generate new play-by-plays/animations if the first ones don't work well. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but I'd love to know what people think!
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