Projects
Standings Tracker
This project, started in 2017, tracks the MLS and USL club soccer standings for the current or latest season. It pulls data from api-sports.io and creates a series of interactive graphs in Highcharts of each team’s results over the course of the season. Its innovation is that it charts each team’s points after each game, minus the number of games they have played. This has the effect of 1) allowing points comparisons after a given number of games rather than as of a given date, so you don’t have to adjust for teams having played a different number of games at any point, and 2) visually showing a team dropping when they lose (-1 point) and staying level when they draw (0 points), which gives you a better sense of each team’s trajectory. I restarted work on the project in 2023 and continue to make improvements. Suggestions welcome via Github issues.