NFL Team Identification

Identify NFL teams from full names, nicknames, and malformed names.

Quickstart

Installing

Install with npm:

npm install nfl-teams

API

nfl-teams can be imported just like any Node.js module:

teams = require "nfl-teams"

The teams module defines one method, matchTeam, which takes a single string as a parameter. Another string is returned, with the full team name (city and formal nickname). As an example,

teams.matchTeam "stillers"
# => "Pittsburgh Steelers"

matchTeam assumes that the team name it's given is in English and is, in fact, an actual team name. If the name isn't recognized, matchTeam will return a best guess, or an empty string if str isn't a string or has a length of zero.

Hacking on nfl-teams

Dependencies

1. Node.js

2. Oven

   Install with:

    sudo npm install -g oven-build

Building

NHLScoreBot is set up to be quickly built with oven, so you can just run:

npm install

to install dependencies and:

oven build

to lint and build the source code.

Alternatively, you can run:

oven watch

to continuously rebuild the code as files change.

Running Test Cases

The included test cases run on vows, which can be installed by running:

sudo npm install -g vows

Then, run :

npm test

to run the test suite.

Credits

nfl-teams uses node.js and CoffeeScript.

It also uses the following library:

• natural.

In addition, team nicknames are sourced from Wikipedia.

License

Copyright (c) 2014, David Pearson
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.