Overview
Football predictions platform - Complete web application enabling real-time collection, analysis, and presentation of sports predictions for football matches worldwide.
Technical Architecture
Backend
- Django framework with MVC architecture and template management
- Relational database: PostgreSQL in production, SQLite in development
- Redis caching system to optimize performance and reduce server load
- Image and media storage via MinIO/S3 with custom configuration and ACL management
- Static file management with WhiteNoise and automatic compression
- Custom context processors for global variable injection in templates
Frontend
- Tailwind CSS framework for responsive, utility-first design
- DaisyUI components for modern user interface
- Django templates with inheritance system and dynamic blocks
- Informative tooltips for probabilities and predictions
- CSS transitions for user interactions
Data Modeling
Hierarchical Structure
- Hierarchical management: League → Season → Team → Match
- ManyToMany relationships for teams participating in multiple leagues
- ForeignKey relationships to maintain referential integrity
- Automatic slugs for SEO-friendly URLs with collision handling
Specialized Models
- Multiple predictions per match with OneToOne and ForeignKey relationships
- Detailed statistics: standings, recent forms, attacks/defenses by league
- Injury and suspension management per match with detailed information
- Specialized rankings: best/worst attack and defense
- League results with frequencies and percentages
- Team standings with points, goals for/against, goal differences
User Features
Navigation and Search
- Homepage with live and upcoming matches grouped by date
- Dedicated pages for yesterday's, today's, and tomorrow's predictions
- Navigation by country with list of national leagues
- International leagues section (Champions League, Europa League, etc.)
- Search with real-time suggestions via AJAX queries
- Filtering and sorting of matches by date, league, status
Detail Pages
- Complete match details with all available predictions
- 1X2 probability display with explanatory tooltips
- Weather information and playing conditions
- Team pages with detailed statistics by season
- League pages with complete standings and aggregated statistics
- Match history and recent team forms
API and Integrations
REST API
- Django REST framework for structured data exposure
- JSON rendering only in production to optimize performance
- Token authentication for secure endpoint access
- Custom serializers for model transformation
Security and Performance
Security Measures
- HTTPS configuration with HSTS and secure redirects in production
- CSRF protection with secure cookies and token validation
- HTTPOnly cookies to prevent XSS attacks
- X-Frame-Options configuration to prevent clickjacking
- Secure secret key management via environment variables
Optimizations
- Redis caching to reduce server load and improve response times
- Static file compression with WhiteNoise
- View caching with Django decorators for frequently accessed pages
- Optimized queries with select_related and prefetch_related
- Structured logging with colorlog for development
SEO and Accessibility
Search Engine Optimization
- Dynamic meta tags for each page (title, description, OG tags, Twitter cards)
- Automatic XML sitemap generation with django.contrib.sitemaps
- SEO-friendly URLs with automatic slugs and logical structure
- Semantic HTML structure for better indexing
- 404 and 500 error handling with custom pages
- robots.txt file configured to guide crawlers
Deployment and Infrastructure
Multi-Environment Configuration
- Docker configuration with Docker Compose for orchestration
- Gunicorn WSGI server for production with custom configuration
- Multi-platform support (Windows, Linux, Docker) with automatic detection
- Automatic database migration management
- Automatic file cleanup with django-cleanup
- Custom startup scripts for each environment
Monitoring and Maintenance
- Logging system configured with differentiated levels by environment
- Error handling with complete traceback in development
- Celery task tracking with results stored in Redis
- Timeout and retry management for scraping operations
Technology Stack
Backend
- Django - Python web framework with powerful ORM
- Celery - Distributed asynchronous tasks
- Redis - Caching and message broker
- PostgreSQL - Robust relational database
- Selenium - Browser automation for scraping
- BeautifulSoup4 - HTML parsing and data extraction
Frontend and Assets
- Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework
- DaisyUI - UI components based on Tailwind
- Pillow - Image processing and manipulation
- Boto3 - AWS S3/MinIO client for cloud storage
Tools and Libraries
- Gunicorn - Production WSGI server
- WhiteNoise - Static file management
- django-cleanup - Automatic file cleanup
- django-browser-reload - Automatic reloading in development
- colorlog - Colored logs for development
