Please introduce your project here. Answer the following questions in separate paragraphs: (1) What is the problem being addressed? (2) What is your project idea and how will it work (what are its components etc). Use pictures/images to make the page interesting.
CrowdSmart is a web-based application created to address the problem of mono-vision sports predictions. The issue with the current sports-betting ecosystem is that it often only relies on the rigid numbers of the teams. Not only can this fail to account for certain players improving or slipping, but it also fails to account for how fans/professionals actually feel about the game.
By incorporating sentiment from professional sports writers/social media, as well as the actual per-team statistics as reported by the NBA, we allow for a more complete view of current or upcoming games. We scrape through Bluesky and find verified sports writers to gather the sentiment on the "fan" side, and pull straight from the NBA API for verified specifics to get the most accurate prediction.