Project Overview
The AFL Live Stats Platform is a web application serving real AFL fans during the season. It delivers real-time match scores, player statistics, ladder standings, and team performance breakdowns — all updated live as matches progress via WebSocket broadcasts.
Key Features
- Real-time match score updates via WebSockets (Laravel Echo + Pusher)
- Player career statistics with season-over-season comparisons
- Interactive ladder and finals scenario calculators
- Responsive design optimised for mobile match-day use
- Admin dashboard for manual data corrections and announcements
- REST API endpoint consumed by a companion iOS application
Technical Highlights
Built on Laravel 11 with a MySQL database optimised for high-read, low-write workloads typical of sports statistics. Redis caching serves ladder and stats pages without hitting the database on every request — essential during peak match-day traffic spikes. A queue-based data ingestion pipeline processes incoming stats feeds and fans them out to connected clients via WebSocket broadcasts.
This is a skills demonstration project. All data shown is synthetic.