Alright, so I wanted to keep better track of the Cavs games, and I figured, why not make something myself? I’m no coding whiz, but I can follow instructions, so I decided to look into how to make a simple “cavs score” tracker.
First, I searched around for APIs. Seems like everyone uses those for sports data. I found a couple of free ones, but honestly, the documentation looked like a foreign language. Lots of technical terms, very confusing.
Then, I decided to just go the old-fashioned way. I’m a manual laborer. I can copy and paste, right? So, I looked for a website that had the Cavs schedule and scores in a nice, clean table. I found one, finally. It wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough.
I opened up a simple text editor. Nothing fancy, just the basic one that comes with my computer. And I started copying. I took the date, the opponent, and the final score. If it was a future game, I just left the score blank.
My Process:
- Open the sports website.
- Find the Cavs schedule.
- Copy the date.
- Copy the opponent.
- Copy the score (if available).
- Paste it all into my text file.
- Repeat for each game.
I did this for the whole season. Took a while, maybe an hour or two, with breaks in between. But hey, I got it done! It’s not pretty, it’s not automatic, but it’s mine.
Now, whenever I want to check the score, I just open up my little text file. I can quickly scan through and see how the Cavs are doing. It’s way easier than browsing through a bunch of websites, in my opinion.
In the future, I might try to figure out how to make this a bit fancier. Maybe learn some basic coding to pull the scores automatically. But for now, this simple method works just fine. It’s my own little Cavs score tracker, built from scratch!
