The new and improved app The Show Scout
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So, while I watched social media and interacted with folks on the board this afternoon I also worked on my app.
When I was looking stuff up I would have the app open in one tab and Baseball Statistics or Fangraphs in another.
So I decided to see if I could bring in the current years stats for any player still in the league. Turns out there is a free api for that so now when I look at a players details page I can call up their Season Stats
Then I thought, "man it would be nice to see how one player stacked up against another", so I decided to see if I could implement a stat comparison. I may still change this screen but I like that it is kind of compact
I am waiting to see what the Captain Blizzard drops are about to see if I should try and expand my captains reports.
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And man, I hope I can adapt this for MLB The Show 26 fairly easily.
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Looks like it is down. Hope to check it out when it is back up.
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@Collin_SDS_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
Looks like it is down. Hope to check it out when it is back up.
I appreciate you attempting to give it a look.
It is back to private at this time. I was apparently operating on a Google Cloud 3 month trial. I may sign up so that I can make it public again. The app should not cost me any money as it does not use any AI functions and does not see enough use to use up the free monthly credits.
Then if I can keep it working next year I may look at other alternatives to host it. If I make it public again I will post it here and message you as the links will probably change.
I am kinda waiting to see the next drop to decide if I want to try and come up with some more Captain reports.
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@Dolenz_PSN Like I have said before I appreciate what you are doing and always interested in what you come up with. If you cannot get host it free on Google Cloud, I may be able to help you host it for free.
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@dap1234567890_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
@Dolenz_PSN Like I have said before I appreciate what you are doing and always interested in what you come up with. If you cannot get host it free on Google Cloud, I may be able to help you host it for free.
Thanks for the offer. I am already, as I have a tendency to do, redesigning the two must recent screens to spruce them up and look a little nicer.
It is one of the reasons I really like deploying it on Google because it is really easy to do when I go through spurts where I update it multiple times a day or during the week. As I understand it if I have to host it elsewhere there will need to be changes to the code which would then make making changes and testing more difficult.
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All I have to say this morning working more on the stats screens is
Curse the players whose names are not entered exactly the same between cards and curse the fact that there are two Max Muncys in the league.
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Spent a chunk of last night and about 4 hours this morning trying to iron out issues and make a more pleasing layout for the new screens. I might redeploy it for all to try but am waiting to see what Captain Blizzard Program is about and whether my plans for new captain reports is worthwhile.
Added an info section to the stats screen with the live series picture and some info (including other card versions)
And made a whole new layout for stat comparisons. The guy on the right got a finest card. The guy on the left did not.
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Definitely keep us posted when you bring it public again, @Dolenz_PSN.
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@Collin_SDS_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
Looks like it is down. Hope to check it out when it is back up.
@SDS_JoeK_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
Definitely keep us posted when you bring it public again, @Dolenz_PSN.
@dap1234567890_PSN said in The new and improved app The Show Scout:
@Dolenz_PSN Like I have said before I appreciate what you are doing and always interested in what you come up with. If you cannot get host it free on Google Cloud, I may be able to help you host it for free.
Okay, I think it is back up and running
Here is the new link. Let me know if you can get to it and if it runs and if you see any issues. It is obviously hard to test everything myself.
I can't remember everything that I have added since last time.
- Stats Screen - pulls in stats for current season and has a button link to Baseball Reference for legends or more details on current players
- Stats Comparison - Compare 2 players 2025 stats.
Older things that may be new
- Team Rarity Breakdown (in Data Breakdowns) - Team by team distribution across all levels of cards
- Legends Awaiting 99 OVR (Eras and Immortals) - A list of legends who do not yet have a 99 card, grouped by highest OVR card
- Series Cost Estimator - Gives you and estimated cost of finishing a Series collection and allows you to mark the ones you have for a personalized cost estimate (Wow, 2025 finest is over 3 million stubs)
- Top 50 Offensive players - Based on the Offensive Meta score
- Top 25 Offensive by position - Select a position and get the top 25
- New Best Squad logic - Finally built in the penalties for secondary positions into the logic and it did make a difference in who was being selected in some squads
- A new Help screen (Top right) - Completely underdeveloped (AI did it all) but you can at least see all of the formulas for the "meta scores"
- New function in Generate Filtered report - If you hit this button from the main screen it will create a report based on your filters. If there are too many players it will default to a summary but there are new buttons at the bottom (Should probably move them to the top) that allows you to see the top 10, 25, 50 or 100 based on your chosen sort column.
