It started with my buddy and I doing push-ups every time the Mariners scored (we didn’t get very strong) and I decided to make a full blown iOS app as a side project. Basically, you pick your team, an exercise, and an intensity and the app tells you how much exercise to do based on how many runs your team scores. It keeps track of it all season so you can workout with the team. Let me know what you all think/if there’s anything you would want to see with next season.
Link to app on app store (Swings for Swoll): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swings-for-swoll/id1277377749
For anyone interested in the tech, MLBAM has all live game data pretty easily accessible online in constantly updating JSON files so it was fairly easy (and fun) to make an MLB At Bat Lite app. I pulled up previous game day date by scraping from Baseball Reference. For my next project, I want to build a sort of “Build your own experience” baseball app that pulls in stats/data across all sorts of sites so I don’t have to be flipping between Fangraphs, LookoutLanding, and MLB.com all day when I’m watching a game. The entire app is all open source too if anyone wants to check it out.
I am not making any money off of this or trying to get people to use the site for personal gain, it’s purely a side project I did that just got a little more ambitious than originally anticipated (as these things tend to do).
Thanks for looking!