Close Calls: Fine Margins
Take over cricket's greatest Test matches, ball by ball
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Close Calls drops you into real Test matches at their most decisive moments and lets you play them out ball by ball, to see if you can match what actually happened. Every delivery runs on a match engine built from real ball-by-ball data, so outcomes behave like genuine cricket rather than following a script. There are 1,500+ real moments to take over, from famous chases to last-hour collapses. It's the game side of Fine Margins, a Test cricket analytics platform I built solo.
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: simulation games · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Sports
- Games
- Data & Analytics
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Could you build this?
Partial The web interface and simulation runner are approachable, but the underlying probabilistic ball-by-ball Bayesian match engine built on historical cricket datasets is mathematically complex.
What it would actually take: The system requires parsing ball-by-ball structured data (e.g. Cricsheet YAML/JSON dumps) and running a calibrated Bayesian generative model or Markov chain state engine to simulate realistic cricket outcomes based on batter-bowler match-ups, pitch wear, and match situations. Building this requires statistical modeling expertise in sports analytics, implemented in Python (using Stan, PyMC, or custom Monte Carlo simulations) and exposed via a fast web API.
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Launched 254 days after the earliest competitor.
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