Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games(www.vincentgregoire.com)
76 pointsby vcf5 hours ago12 comments
  • captn3m0an hour ago
    Link to the API Client is incorrect at the bottom: https://github.com/nhl-stats-api-client instead of https://github.com/liahimratman/nhl-api-client
  • jlongmanan hour ago
    nIce! Does it have player in-game stats like TOI and +/-?

    This reminds me of that f1 tui… https://github.com/JustAman62/undercut-f1 or https://github.com/IAmTomShaw/f1-race-replay. The one I’m thinking of syncs with kodi for delayed playback “live” stats.

  • divbzero4 hours ago
    Related:

    Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451577 - Oct 2025 (146 comments)

    Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591070 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

    Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653981 - Nov 2019 (42 comments)

    • j454 hours ago
      Different sport though, but neat visualizations.
  • yuppiepuppie2 hours ago
    Nice! I was thinking about doing something like this but for cycling, however one of the biggest PIA about building products for sports is all the gating of data.

    Does the NHL really provide an API for all games? That's nice...

    • stackskipton6 minutes ago
      Officially no, but there is undocumented API (if you are commercial, they provide documentation and support) that is public without authentication.
    • vcf2 hours ago
      I had the same thought, went ahead when I found an existing Python module to access the API.
  • freedomben4 hours ago
    Nice, I've now created dozens of little personal tools like this now :-)

    This is IMHO the killer AI feature for personal use. So many utlities I never would have spent time on are now within reach. Even just non-trivial bashrc aliases and functions

    • vcf4 hours ago
      Yeah, I completely agree. It's awesome to be able to build anything you want (as long as it's not too complex). I, too, have at least a dozen, and I usually don't share, but with the playoffs starting, I felt others could enjoy this one.
      • zawakin3 hours ago
        Same — similar pile accumulating, and GitHub has fallen way behind. I keep going back and forth on whether a monorepo is the right answer or if it'd just make the sprawl more legible without actually helping. How are you organizing yours?
      • embedding-shape3 hours ago
        > It's awesome to be able to build anything you want (as long as it's not too complex).

        That's the thing. It was always awesome, as long as it wasn't too complex. The only thing that changed for me what was "too complex".

      • cr125rider4 hours ago
        Super fun! Nice job shipping!
  • rangersny14 hours ago
    Nice! In practice, how far behind the TV broadcast does it end up being?
    • vcf3 hours ago
      Not too much, but it’s using a Rest API, so it also depends on the refresh rate (default 30 seconds, configurable with cli argument).
      • brewdadan hour ago
        That’s not bad. One of my favorite times is college football season with a big game on say, ABC. You quickly learn who it watching OTA, who is watching on cable and who has YoutubeTV based on the different reaction times after a big play.
  • james-clef4 hours ago
    Wicked. Who is your team?
    • vcf3 hours ago
      Go Habs Go!
  • cyberax3 hours ago
    What next? Perhaps a small scripting language to run on the side of the terminal?

    You know, just to make some simple automations possible, nothing super-special.

  • _doctor_love3 hours ago
    settle down
  • itsnh983 hours ago
    Go Habs!
  • j454 hours ago
    The missing interface from sports.
  • embedding-shape3 hours ago
    > Acknowledgments - This project was inspired by Playball, a similar terminal application for following MLB baseball games.

    Should've gone for something generalized that could handle a bunch of different games, instead of just another sport, so someone caring about multiple sports don't need multiple TUIs :)

    • vcf3 hours ago
      Different sports have different ways to present the data. But most importantly, the data availability differs a lot between leagues, so there’s a benefit to having separate tools. I, for one, would not want to maintain an app for all sports.
    • bpev2 hours ago
      not terminal, but fwiw: https://plaintextsports.com