Question

User Python to solve; show all code:

1. A user will enter in data for a basketball team. For each player on the team the user will enter
   1. The player’s last name
   2. The average number of point the player scored last season
   3. The number of games the player is projected to play in this year

Write a program that will prompt the user for the player data described above. The user does not know how many players are on the team so allow the user to enter the word end when he/she has finished entering data.

Validate that the player is not entered more than once.

After entering the data, compute the following:

1. The projected number of points the team will score this year. Assume the player will score the same number of points per game as they did last season.
2. The name of the player who is projected to score the most points this year. Also display the projected number of points.

Answer 1

d = {}                   #dictionary to store list of player names
count = 0               #storing total points
max_count = 0           #storing maximum points by a player
best_player = ""       #storing the player's name who has best points
while True:
   print("Enter player's last name, else enter end to quit")
   name = input()
   if name == "end":   #checking if user wants to quit
       break
   if name in d.keys():   #checking for duplicate names
       print("Data already entered")
       continue
   print("Enter average number of points scored")
   points = float(input())
   print("Enter number of games projected to play")
   games = int(input())

   count += points * games  
   if max_count < points * games:   #if a new maximum value is seen
       max_count = points * games
       best_player = name

   d[name] = [points, games]   #storing the player's details in the dictionary

print()
print("Projected number of points is " + str(count))
print()
print("Best player is " + best_player + " with " + str(max_count) + " points")