Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (opens in new tab)

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Nice! I was thinking about doing something like this but for cycling, however one of the biggest PIA about building products for sports is all the gating of data.

Does the NHL really provide an API for all games? That's nice...

Sweet NHL TUI, Vincent! Live scores + standings in terminal? Hockey nerd's dream. Textual + NHL API = perfection. Installed via uvx—game on!

I love this - watching the hurricanes game right now! Autorefresh would be nice and then it looks like a small bug in the faceoff percentage as they both say 100% which shouldn't be possible at any point in the game. Also would be sick to be able to enter the team and roster detail page from within the game detail page. But I love this so much and appreciate you for building it :D

edit the face off percentage is still a little off it's updated to show this 87% - 67%. Also followed you on twitter and github.

Nice, I've now created dozens of little personal tools like this now :-)

This is IMHO the killer AI feature for personal use. So many utlities I never would have spent time on are now within reach. Even just non-trivial bashrc aliases and functions

It's like the reinvention of Teletext

Link to the API Client is incorrect at the bottom: https://github.com/nhl-stats-api-client instead of https://github.com/liahimratman/nhl-api-client

This is great. I recently asked AI how many software devs played hockey. It estimated 25k - 50k globally. It also called it a 'prestige sport' which never occurred to me (what with all the guys with missing teeth). But the cost of playing is getting significant. Still the most fun sport to play and watch.

Thanks for this - TUI is awesome.

I just looked at it. It’s kind of interesting.

It’s the type of thing that I have thought about. But wouldn’t have done before AI.

It looks interesting, but you can create this with any database, like mysql and create relations between tables, right?

Do the endpoints still work?

https://api-web.nhle.com/v1

Keeping upto date endpoints for sport scores is the most difficult challenge.

nIce! Does it have player in-game stats like TOI and +/-?

This reminds me of that f1 tui… https://github.com/JustAman62/undercut-f1 or https://github.com/IAmTomShaw/f1-race-replay. The one I’m thinking of syncs with kodi for delayed playback “live” stats.

curious how you handle the NHL feed latency. the undocumented API can be anywhere from 30s to 2 minutes behind the ice. do you poll on a fixed interval or do something smarter to keep it snappy

What next? Perhaps a small scripting language to run on the side of the terminal?

You know, just to make some simple automations possible, nothing super-special.

it's super cool

> Acknowledgments - This project was inspired by Playball, a similar terminal application for following MLB baseball games.

Should've gone for something generalized that could handle a bunch of different games, instead of just another sport, so someone caring about multiple sports don't need multiple TUIs :)

Nice! In practice, how far behind the TV broadcast does it end up being?

Not a hockey fan but i absolutely love this

NHL? What are we, Canadians?

Wicked. Who is your team?

Go Habs!

The missing interface from sports.

settle down