Okay, so I wanted to talk about this little thing I put together recently involving the KBO standings.
Getting Started
It really started pretty simple. I’ve been following the KBO league a bit more lately, you know, just casually. But I kept finding myself searching for the standings every other day. It wasn’t hard, but it was just… another step. I thought, wouldn’t it be neat if I just had it right there, updated, whenever I wanted to check?
So, I got this idea. Maybe I could just make my own little tracker. Nothing fancy, mind you. Just something for my own use. I’m not exactly a coding wizard, but I like tinkering sometimes.
Figuring Things Out
First thing was, where do I even get the info reliably? I spent a bit of time just browsing around, seeing which sites had the standings updated quickly after games. Found a couple of places that seemed pretty consistent. Didn’t need anything complicated, just the team names, wins, losses, maybe the winning percentage. The basic stuff.
Once I had an idea of where to look, I started thinking about how to display it for myself. My first thought was super basic: just a text file I updated manually on my computer. But that felt like barely an improvement over searching online.
So, I fiddled around a bit more. I thought about making a really simple local webpage, something only I would see on my machine. Just pure HTML, maybe. I know a tiny bit of that.
Putting it Together (The Simple Way)
I spent an afternoon just trying things out. It was a lot of trial and error, honestly. Getting the layout right, even for something simple, took a few tries. I wanted it clean, just the list of teams, ordered correctly.
- First, I just hardcoded some dummy data to see how it looked.
- Then, I tried actually putting in the real team names.
- Updating the wins and losses was the next step. At first, I was still doing that by hand, just editing the file.
I briefly looked into maybe making it automatically grab the data, but that seemed like it was going to be a whole other rabbit hole, and honestly, I just wanted something quick and functional for me. So, for now, it still involves me looking up the scores and plugging them in. It’s not automated, but it’s centralized, right where I want it.
The Result
So now, I have this simple little file I can open up. It shows the KBO standings, formatted nicely enough for me to read at a glance. It’s nothing groundbreaking. It’s purely for my personal convenience. But it works! Every day or two, I take a minute, check the latest results, and update my little standings page.
It felt pretty good to actually build something, even something this basic. Solved my own little problem. And that’s usually how these things start, right? Just trying to make something easier for yourself. It’s not perfect, but it does the job I wanted it to do.