crackerjack

A CLI boxscore generator.

The newspaper boxscore was basically a perfect way to aggregate data about a given day's games.

Nowadays, nobody reads physical papers anymore, but nerds still use command line interfaces; if there was ever a second-best place for a boxscore, it was a CLI.

Installation

Dependencies:

• setuptools: package development and distribution library
• inquirer: a CLI navigation library
• colorama: a library for coloring CLI outputs
• numpy: for numerical computations
• pandas: data loading and analysis

Instructions:

• navigate to the directory you want to install into
• activate a virtual environment (if desired; e.g. conda activate boxscore-env)
• git clone [email protected]:cfrontin/boxscore-cli.git
  • makes a local copy of the git repository with ties back to the github.com repo
• cd boxscore-cli to move into the directory you just cloned
• pip install -e . to install the package (in editable mode)
• navigate out of the installation directory and its parent then make sure boxscore runs
• voilá

Operation (beta mode)

Type crackerjack at the command line after installing.

This will drop you into a menu:

From there, you can navigate to the features of crackerjack. These are line scores:

Oof. Tough night for the Red Sox. Also boxscores:

There's also standings, and standings sparklines: