Creating a Basketball Simulation App With Swift: Part 2

Let’s keep building basketball.

Welcome back to the basketball app project. You can catch up on Part 1 here.

If you remember where we left off last time, we had successfully created Player, Team, and Game classes which were used to simulate a basketball games. Games consisted on a series of possessions by both teams, where they had a chance to score. We’re able to play some matches and receive a final box score:

But, there’s still a lot of work to do. Here are some questions that came to my mind afterwards:

1. Can we personalize our teams with names? Can we name our players too?
2. Could we build a box score, to see who’s scoring the points, and how many points is each player scoring?
3. Going off these next two features, what else do we need to begin building out a league of some sort? Can we keep track of the results of each game, and present stats at the end of a “season”?

These are the primary goals to complete for this part. Before we dive in, I’ll address a really cool suggestion someone made to support three-point field goals in a simulated possession. This block of code comes courtesy of Aaron A: