Building a Fantasy Sports App: What Data You Actually Need
"Fantasy app" sounds like it just needs player stats. It doesn't. A real fantasy product — season-long, DFS, or dynasty — needs six distinct data categories working together, and most first-time build
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Building sports data APIs at Orbistats
I write about backend architecture, API design, and building data platforms that need to stay consistent across structurally different domains. Currently building Orbistats — a sports data and odds API covering 11 mainstream sports. I share lessons from designing schemas that hold up across football, cricket, tennis, basketball and more, where the "same" problem is never actually the same problem twice. Topics I write about: - API design & versioning - Multi-domain schema architecture - Sports data & real-time feeds - Developer experience for data products Always happy to talk about schema design, backend systems, or where a unified data model actually breaks in production.
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