Optimized Sports Betting

Inspiration

We noticed how Bookmakers(the people who make the odds for betting websites) calculate the odds in a way that they would always get money and the customers are at a great disadvantage. We decided to make this project to assure that people can get the best odds.

What it does

Our project scrapes the web, looking into many sports betting websites, to compare the different odds on these websites. It then recommends where to bet based on its results.

How we built it

We used primarily used python and json to write the program.

Challenges we ran into

It was quite difficult to select the specific data we wanted from the odds-api we used. We had to run into a bunch of bugs and also really think about how the systems work -it was all fun to be honest.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This was the first hackathon for most of our team members and we handled quite well actually.

What we learned

So many things! Working on a projected, being so focused as we were, gave us a perspective of what the coding life is like. The first time isn't going to work but that final 'eureka!' moment that you get is priceless -truly it is.