What will it do?

Backend should support

API for UI

• Most if not all functionality below should be exposed to UI

Return time series by player

• By between 1 and all stats (basic and advanced)
• By date range
• By datetime unit (day, month, year/season)
• By regular season and playoffs...or combined
• Available parameters
  • Date range / specific date or game / season
  • Regular season / playoffs

Return time series by team

• By between 1 and all stats (basic and advanced)
• By date range
• By datetime unit (day, month, year/season)
• By regular season and playoffs...or combined

Supported analytics

• Forecasting by player/team

(Optional) Return time series by conference

• By between 1 and all stats (basic and advanced)
• By date range
• By datetime unit (day, month, year/season)
• By regular season and playoffs...or combined

UI should support

Show time series (line graph) by player

• Players should be searchable
• Stats should be searchable and selectable in a dropdown
• Teams should be searchable and selectable in a dropdown
• Year/season should be selectable in a dropdown
• Time sampling should support ranges and units by day, year, and month [and pre-/post-allstar break? (probably hardcoded each season)]

Player comparisons

• Support side by side tables of basic or advanced stats given parameters for players or teams

Data tables

• Players
  • Table of all players and their per-game stats (basic and advanced) at the season level
• Gamelog
  • Each player will have their own gamelog table with a foreign key to the players table
• Shot chart
  • Each player will have shot

Work to be done

Select a method of "querying".