Hi r/SideProject. I'm a solo dev in Camas, WA, and Pigskin Lab is what I've been building for football nerds like me: you type a question the way you'd say it to a friend ("how is Purdy doing on third down this year compared to his own 2023?") and it builds you a dashboard. The part I care about most: every number comes from nflverse play-by-play going back to 1999, and a language model never writes a number. The question gets turned into a query, the database answers it, and the page shows what came back. I recently demoed it on the Filmstudy - Baltimore Ravens Talk podcast (the demo starts around 3:15): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBgK2yWz4OU&t=195s What was hard: - Plain English is messy. "His", "this year", "compared to his own 2023", a player named like three other players. Getting those to resolve to the right season and the right person took far longer than building the dashboards did. - Trust. A stats site that is wrong once is dead, so a big chunk of my time went into checking answers, not adding features. - Making every game page readable: a written story, win probability and every drive, all generated from the numbers on the page. What I'd love feedback on: - Try one question you actually wanted answered. Did it understand you? If not, tell me the exact wording and I'll fix it. - Is a dashboard the right thing to hand back, or would you rather get a short written answer first? It's free during the beta, no ads, no paywall: https://pigskinlab.com/?ref=reddit-sideproject Happy to talk about the stack or the parsing if anyone's curious.   submitted by   /u/Every_Math69 [link]   [comments]