This is awesome. Great idea and really well executed. I'll fill my bracket out tomorrow.
WRT getting people to come back, I'd leverage your stats. Some ideas:
* Tweet during the tournament. e.g., "63% of our users correctly predicted Georgetown over Tenn."
* Tweet / show on the site the percentages of people who bet each way on each game, and the percentage still left in the running
* Show the user their potential chance of winning the $5k over the course of the tournament, as people are eliminated. Like watching poker on TV.
* Show a leaderboard and tweet the current leaders. Have many categories, e.g., "top picker this round", "top overall", "worst overall"
* Tweet / blog interesting stats you see in the dataset. For example, which team do people think is most underranked? Overranked? What team do people think is the absolute worst? Absolute best?
* What does your aggregate Final Four look like? Aggregate Sweet 16? Track the "score" of the aggregated bracket over the course of the tournament.
Edited to add:
ESPN does something really clever with Fantasy Sports you could mimic. During the football season they'll run ads for a "late league", for people who missed the draft deadline. If you offered a "late pool" (i.e., one that starts in the round of 32 or 16) I bet you'd be the only one.
I agree that it's a quality idea. I think I'd say a bit more up front to explain how the $5k works and what's involved. I'd introduce another colour to your palette as it's a bit limited right now. With the disabled button in the bottom right, explain underneath that it will activate when "x" more picks have been made. As picks are made (and there are, say, 10 left), highlight the missing ones with yellow or red perhaps. When I was mucking around, I missed a couple.
The name is a bit scammy (everyone is skeptical of anything with "bet" in it) so you could consider something with "Challenge" instead. Or keep the nice, short URL, and bring "Challenge" into the heading.
I run www.hoops.com.au which is an Australian basketball forum and can plug your site there if you'd like. Not sure how many people there are Twitter users though. I also have a few basketball people (players, bloggers, fans) following me on Twitter if you want me to spread the word. Email is isaac & triplezero = com ` au.
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This is awesome. Great idea and really well executed. I'll fill my bracket out tomorrow.
WRT getting people to come back, I'd leverage your stats. Some ideas:
* Tweet during the tournament. e.g., "63% of our users correctly predicted Georgetown over Tenn."
* Tweet / show on the site the percentages of people who bet each way on each game, and the percentage still left in the running
* Show the user their potential chance of winning the $5k over the course of the tournament, as people are eliminated. Like watching poker on TV.
* Show a leaderboard and tweet the current leaders. Have many categories, e.g., "top picker this round", "top overall", "worst overall"
* Tweet / blog interesting stats you see in the dataset. For example, which team do people think is most underranked? Overranked? What team do people think is the absolute worst? Absolute best?
* What does your aggregate Final Four look like? Aggregate Sweet 16? Track the "score" of the aggregated bracket over the course of the tournament.
Edited to add:
ESPN does something really clever with Fantasy Sports you could mimic. During the football season they'll run ads for a "late league", for people who missed the draft deadline. If you offered a "late pool" (i.e., one that starts in the round of 32 or 16) I bet you'd be the only one.
Great suggestions.
I agree that it's a quality idea. I think I'd say a bit more up front to explain how the $5k works and what's involved. I'd introduce another colour to your palette as it's a bit limited right now. With the disabled button in the bottom right, explain underneath that it will activate when "x" more picks have been made. As picks are made (and there are, say, 10 left), highlight the missing ones with yellow or red perhaps. When I was mucking around, I missed a couple.
The name is a bit scammy (everyone is skeptical of anything with "bet" in it) so you could consider something with "Challenge" instead. Or keep the nice, short URL, and bring "Challenge" into the heading.
I run www.hoops.com.au which is an Australian basketball forum and can plug your site there if you'd like. Not sure how many people there are Twitter users though. I also have a few basketball people (players, bloggers, fans) following me on Twitter if you want me to spread the word. Email is isaac & triplezero = com ` au.