CFB Central

Automatically generated home page for all 133 Division 1 college football teams, built using Spring and React with Redux, with Vite as the build tool.

Data Sources

Football Data

Data from College Football Data API (CFBD):

• Data provided by CFBD was highly irregular (snake_case, camelCase, lots of missing data, null values, wrong values, duplicate entries, non-matching column names for dependent tables, and so on) and was normalized using custom configurations within Spring and various correction strategies.
• Game quarter scores were not available via CFBD API and were generated by parsing large amounts of play data from CFBD's /play endpoint.
• All data persisted to MySQL database in order to respect CFBD's request of minimizing API calls.

Images and Maps

• Stadium image URLs collected using Google Custom Search API.
• Team images from ESPN
• Video for splash page created by Al Fu.
• Player locations plotted using Google Maps API.
• Images belong to respective owners

UI Components

• Material UI for navigation components.
• Customized fork of React Chrono for Timeline (adjusted spacing).
• Randomized catch-phrase on splash page (I couldn't decided on one)
• Charts.js for charts

Security

• The website initially had Spring Security for account features, but these features have been removed due to outdated implementation of Spring Security/CVEs and will be replaced.