NBA Playoff Tracker - 2020 Shiny Contest Submission

NBA Playoff Tracker

Authors: Garrett Hill
Working with Shiny more than 1 year

Abstract: A shiny app that lets you predict the remaining games of your favorite NBA team and see whether or not they will make the playoffs.

Full Description: This app lets you choose your favorite NBA team, predict their remaining games and then see if they made the playoffs or not. It uses your predictions as the result for the games of the team you pick, and then simulates the rest of the games based on 538 probabilities. So each time you use the app it's a new season where the results of the other games are different every time. This app give you a fun way to see possible playoff match-ups and regular season results since the NBA season is suspended indefinitely.


Category: Sports
Keywords: NBA,basketball,sports,simulation
Shiny app: https://garretthill.shinyapps.io/basketball/
Repo: GitHub - garretthill/NBA-Playoff-Tracker
RStudio Cloud: Ran out of time, and am not familiar enough with RStudio Cloud to do it quickly.

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