SSB Stats

Live site: ssbstats.app

SSB Stats is a Flask analytics site for a long-running Super Smash Bros league that is tracked like a WWE-style franchise. It turns manually recorded match history into searchable fighter profiles, rivalry comparisons, power rankings, season summaries, championship history, event history, fight logs, and an AI-assisted stats search.

What The Site Does

• Browse the full fighter roster with current champion badges
• Compare any two fighters across career and season-level metrics
• View fighter profile pages with accolades, streaks, charts, and fight history
• Explore all-time and season-specific power rankings
• Review season summaries, championship history, and PPV/event history
• Filter and scan detailed fight logs
• Ask natural-language questions against the stats database

Stack

• Flask + Jinja2 for server-rendered pages and JSON APIs
• MySQL on AWS RDS for normalized league data and pre-aggregated views
• Vanilla JavaScript + Chart.js for frontend interactions and charts
• Gunicorn on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, with Cloudflare in front of the app

Backend Layout

The backend has been split into a small Flask entrypoint plus modular route and service files:

ssbstats/
├── app.py
├── ssbstats_app/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── utils.py
│   ├── repositories/
│   │   ├── base.py
│   │   ├── comparisons.py
│   │   ├── elo.py
│   │   ├── events.py
│   │   ├── fighters.py
│   │   ├── fights.py
│   │   ├── leaderboards.py
│   │   ├── lookups.py
│   │   ├── power.py
│   │   └── seasons.py
│   ├── routes/
│   │   ├── api.py
│   │   └── pages.py
│   └── services/
│       ├── chat.py
│       ├── content.py
│       └── stats.py
├── templates/
│   └── partials/
├── static/
│   └── js/pages/
├── tests/
├── scripts/
│   └── maintenance/
├── generated/
├── fighters.yaml
├── DEV_GUIDE.md
└── requirements.txt

Responsibilities:

• app.py: WSGI entrypoint for local runs and Gunicorn
• ssbstats_app/__init__.py: app factory and blueprint registration
• ssbstats_app/repositories/: database access split by feature area
• ssbstats_app/routes/: HTTP route definitions
• ssbstats_app/services/: payload shaping and feature logic
• ssbstats_app/utils.py: shared serialization and naming helpers
• templates/partials/: reusable template sections for large pages like fighter profiles and comparisons
• static/js/pages/: page-specific frontend scripts extracted from templates
• scripts/maintenance/: standalone local maintenance utilities like Elo and Power Score scripts
• generated/: generated local artifacts produced by maintenance scripts
• tests/: lightweight unittest coverage for stable helpers and guard logic

Local Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11 recommended
• MySQL credentials for the AWS RDS instance
• IP allowlisting for direct DB access if required by your environment

Install

git clone <repo-url>
cd ssbstats
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp secrets.env.example secrets.env

Fill in secrets.env:

awsendpoint=your-rds-endpoint.region.rds.amazonaws.com
awsuser=your_database_username
awspassword=your_database_password
awsdb=SmashBros
GROQ_API_KEY=optional_for_chat

Run

python app.py

Open http://localhost:5000.

Run Tests

python -m unittest discover tests

Main Routes

Pages

• / roster
• /head2head fighter comparison
• /fighter/<name> fighter profile
• /leaderboard power rankings
• /seasons season summaries
• /championships championship history
• /events PPV/event history
• /fights fight log explorer
• /chat AI stats search
• /about project background and architecture story

APIs

• /api/autocomplete/<category>
• /api/head2head
• /api/fighter/<name>
• /api/fighter/<name>/advanced
• /api/leaderboard
• /api/seasons
• /api/season/<season_id>
• /api/fights
• /api/compare
• /api/championships
• /api/events
• /api/chat

Project Strengths

• Original domain and dataset rather than reused public sample data
• Real relational modeling with derived views and computed metrics
• End-user product surface on top of the analytics layer
• Clear personal story behind the data and why it exists

Current Gaps

• The app still depends on private database access for full local use
• There is not yet a formal automated test suite
• several templates and some frontend scripts are still larger than ideal
• The AI chat is useful, but less reliable than the deterministic stats pages

Deployment

Production runs through Elastic Beanstalk with:

• Procfile -> gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 --workers 2 app:app
• Cloudflare for DNS and HTTPS
• RDS MySQL for the league data

For a fuller architecture walkthrough, see DEV_GUIDE.md.