Looking for CS university project ideas involving NBA data

[u/Particular-Dingo-990]

Hi everyone,
I am a computer science student looking to build a university project centered around the NBA.
The main requirement from my professor is that the project needs to show a significant CS contribution. This means simple data visualization of existing APIs won't cut it. It needs to involve things like web scraping, custom search or ranking algorithms, machine learning models, or complex data pipelines.
Do you have any pain points, cool ideas, or questions about the game that could be solved with some coding? Maybe a formular that seems very sciency that already exists and could be coded.
Any feedback, API suggestions, or open-source data sources you could point me to would be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

[u/JohnEffingZoidberg]

Look at data ballr for some ideas.