About

• finds the best combination of players for the NBA fantasy league based on statistics
• also has an api setup that can fetch statistics for players in a JSON format by scraping the stats webpage, since there is currently no way to easily fetch those statistics

How to use

Prerequisites

• Java 21 and up
• for now, latest version of Google Chrome (recommended, otherwise using Docker is required)

Running the project

(*on Windows use you might have to use ./mvnw.cmd instead of ./mvnw)

1. start the web scraper server:

   Without Docker

   • either with ./mvnw spring-boot:run -pl api,
   • ./mvnw clean package -pl api and then java -jar ./api/target/nbafantasy-api.jar OR
   • download .JAR file from the release and run them with the java -jar <file-path> command

   With Docker

   • docker build -t <docker-image-name> ., then docker run --name <app-name> -p 8080:8080 <docker-image-name>

2. start the main program (in new shell/cmd if necessary):

   • either with ./mvnw clean compile exec:java -pl core,
   • ./mvnw clean package -pl core and then java -jar ./api/target/nbafantasy-core.jar OR
   • download .JAR file from the release and run them with the java -jar <file-path> command