First off I am a novice at Arduino and recently discovered the world of Arduino. I recently bought my first Arduino kit to play with.
I have been thinking about this for quite some time and now that Football season is in- I want to start this asap. I am wondering if anyone has any idea on how to go about in designing a FANTASY FOOTBALL LED SCOREBOARD that can display your fantasy football scores automatically from sites like CBS sportsline or ESPN VIA WIFI OR direct cat 5 connection.
I would think that the score board would need the following:
League name:
Provisions for a 20 digit 7 segment display. This is to be centered at the top in 2 inch digits.
Team name displays:
at most provisions for (16) team names. This will include (16) 10 digit 7 segement displays for the names of the players in the league. If the scoreboard can be vertically displayed the names can be arranged in 2 columns with 4 double rows. Each double row will have two stacked displays of team names and scores on each side of the scoreboard representing the teams playing each other for that week.
Team Score:
Provisions for (16) team scores. This will include (16) 3 digit 7 segment displays. Team score display will be placed to the right and adjacent to each team name.
Operation:
Would like to learn how to design the board so that each display is updated and fed drirectly form the Fantasy league score tracker output from the website. How would I be able to obtain the the information form the website and upload it to the Arduino so that the scores are updated in real time as the website updates it's data? it would be great to introduce wifi so that i can hang it in my rec room during the game times.
Alternate operation:
I would also like to add a view option that would allow me to switch the current display view and switch it to view any particular teams roster and points using the same 16 displays. This can be done by adding a push button for each team somewhere on the scoreboard. There can be a little control panel maybe at the bottom with 17 buttons. Each of the 16 buttons representing each one of the 16 teams and the 17th button representing the original default league overall scoring display. So when you want to see a particular teams roster with player scores you select the button for that team and the entire scoreboard reverts to that teams stats in real time. Once your done and want to revert back to the default league scoring display you activate the 17th button. The way this works is that each team has 9 active player displays, 1 total points display and 6 reserve player displays. Adjacent to all 16 displays we already have the 3 digit 7 segemnt displays that can also be used to show the roster points for that team.
Details:
The teams can be displayed in colors different than the scores. i would think that the best colors would be those that represent the NFL like Red, White and Blue. If there are any segment displays in blue the team names would look cool that way. The points can be displayed in red and the tema name can be in white or yellow.
If you have an idea on the hardware and the way to tap into CBS or ESPN to obtain the information I think this Will be a fun project.
Thanks,
JMV