Net Bet!

Dunk shot animation
Selecting the game to bet on
Selecting which categories to place bets on, and then placing bets
Free throw animation
Layup animation
Jump shot animation

Inspiration

We saw the sports theme and talked about animating a sports game. The idea was then brought up (after one of us saw cards or something) to make it an interactive(ish) game with betting, and then NET BET was born!

What it does

It's a mini sports betting game that takes past games, let's you place bets (essentially just points) on a variety of topics and then animates the game out.

How we built it

An excessive amount of pain, a lot of web scraping of https://plaintextsports.com/, a good amount of looking at docs, and, of course, VS Code for python.

Challenges we ran into

The website that we decided to web-scrape is written to almost intentionally be hard to web scrape which makes no sense given it's a plain text web site. So the web scraping took forever to work out