Game Picker for NFL Regular Seasons

Abstract

This project was created in free time by a college student who likes coding and football.

View the code here!

How It Began

The idea hatched when I watched a YouTube video of Adam Rank predicting all the football games for the 2019 season (the very same video he had the 49ers going 3-13). I thought the way he was pushing the buttons to pick games was fun and it would be nice if everyone had access to a way to make predictions in such a manner. So I decided to take my knowledge and enjoyment of coding and football and use it to build this season predictor for fun and for all to use (for free)!

The Project

Features

• Buttons for picking games, with time/date/primetime signification above
• Live standings that update as your picks are made (can sort by divisions or confrences)
  • All possible tie breakers have been implemented. Only those that involve points or number of touchdowns were not implemented because this picker only picks winners and not scores (yet?).
  • Normally, the last tie breaker is a coin toss. For the sake of consistency this was made deterministic.
• Post Season picking. You can pick your way through playoff brackets based on the standings results of your in season game outcomes.
• Settings to control:
  • The way you pick by team or week
  • The detail level of the standings
  • Show a progress bar of how many games of the total for the season have been picked
  • Show playoff brackets
  • Enable post season picking before all games have been picked (default is you must pick all season games first)

Features (Hopefully) On The Way

• Login to save your picks in files
  • Share picks with friends or other users (2)
  • Create community statistics for game predictions (3)
  • Pick accuracy feedback (3)
  • Load current game results from a season, this would help compute accuracy feedback (3)
  • Save post season predictions (2)
• More settings
  • Maybe some backgrounds (2)
• Pick games with scores (3)

(1) short term/near future goal

(2) intermediate future goal

(3) longer term/distant future goal

More

This webapp was designed for desktop/laptop monitors, but I have made it atleast usable (hopefully) for mobile devices, the bigger the screen the better it will probably look... but this is something I will keep working on.

I'll continue updating the README.md as I think of more details and stories about this project ;)

License

All code in this repository is under the MIT License

v1.3.0