Slamball is 3 on 3 basketball played with the hoops at 8.5 feet. There's a lot of dunking and physical play, and of course money on the line. The Anderson Slamball League was one of the first and most exciting projects that I worked on. It got a lot of positive feedback from the start and I was able to get almost 60 people signed up for the first season. I didn't know HTML/CSS very well during this time and didn't have Adobe yet, so I used Wix to build the website. It was challenging to organize the draft and schedule games, but it really got me hooked on entrepreneurship. You can check out the old website below. It's a bit outdated and might have a few screws missing, but you get the idea. The link is here: http://eadess22.wixsite.com/andersonslamball
2013
Photoshop, Illustrator, Wix
The official league logo
It all started with a group of us playing pickup basketball on a court that had low enough rims for everyone to dunk. Our township is pretty close-knit, so word spread pretty fast about this new variant of basketball termed "slamball". Before we knew it, we had 20+ people showing up every couple days to play pickup games. The rules evolved on their own through trial and error, and different play styles emerged as players figured out what worked and what didn't. I quickly realized how fun and competitive this could be with a little organization and money. I paid for some web hosting, bought chalk to create the court lines, and drafted up some guidelines and processes to create and maintain a league. Before I knew it we had 60 players signed up, with a couple players stepping up to be team managers.
Matt Rice dunk
Alex Popp dunk
Connor Peck floater
Jon Blohm dunk
Thomas Krutka dunk
Troy Gregg fadeaway
Charlie Carroll dunk
Using a website and some random generators, I threw together a schedule with matchups each week. I left the scheduling up to the team managers, and would attend each game to take pictures for the website and to provide some general referee overview. The league was somewhat of a success, although scheduling between teams became an issue. Many players just weren't able to find a shared time that would allow enough members from both teams to show up. Everyone was in high school and played sports or had part-time summer jobs, so it wasn't easy getting everyone together at the same time. Nevertheless, everyone had a blast playing and competing to be the best Slamball team.
