Center Court
This is a live NBA scores and stats site built around fast live box scores, intended to bridge the gap between slow mainstream sports sites and advanced stat-focused sites. It stores raw play-by-play payloads immutably and derives every statistic at request time as a pure fold over the event log, so a game's entire state can be re-derived at any point or time range. The site is server-side rendered with progressive JS enhancements, with immutable URLs cached behind a CDN, and includes features like score-over-time charts with a 'No garbage time' filter.
What it addresses
Major sports sites like ESPN.com have slow, poor UI/UX for live box scores, while advanced stat-focused sites lack a good live experience.
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Center Court
This is a live NBA scores and stats site built around fast live box scores, intended to bridge the gap between slow mainstream sports sites and advanced stat-focused sites. It stores raw play-by-play payloads immutably and derives every statistic at request time as a pure fold over the event log, so a game's entire state can be re-derived at any point or time range. The site is server-side rendered with progressive JS enhancements, with immutable URLs cached behind a CDN, and includes features like score-over-time charts with a 'No garbage time' filter.
Problem: Major sports sites like ESPN.com have slow, poor UI/UX for live box scores, while advanced stat-focused sites lack a good live experience.
Audience: General sports/basketball fans looking for a faster live scores experience
Posted by @bretthopper · Original comment ↗
“After a few false starts over the years, I have a new concept called Center Court that I'm so excited about. It's primary purpose is for live boxscores because all of the major sports sites have terrible UI/UX experiences. I always defaulted to ESPN.com but it's so slow and awful. Center Court is basically a bridge between espn.com (or nba.com) and more advanced stat focused sites that don't offer a good live experience.”