I though this might interest other groups of friends so I coded a website just for that in 3 days.
Nothing ground breaking but I like the suscription system "Doodle" style with just links, no personal infos...
Tell me what you think !
I have a BIG concern:
Why don't you input our teams into the Round of 16???? Why wait until you have the REAL results to input them?
People who didn't predict the winners (those teams which will get into the round of 16) should be penalized for not getting the teams right!!!! So why let people make predictions on Round of 16 if they didn't even get the teams right!?
Here, at least you can still save face for the final rounds, it will keep people who performed poorly at the group stage interested in the challenge I think, no?
According to the current rules, the following scenario is possible:
A guy who guesses the "Round of 16" teams correctly might have the same amount of points (or even lower) than a guy who didn't get a single "Round of 16" team correctly (just because he/she got the scores right often).
So now, you are letting the guy who didn't get a single team right get even more points and surpassing someone who got the winners correctly (but unfortunately didn't get the scores right).
Basically, people who don't get the teams right should be weeded out. That's only fair.
Also, if you want to let someone make a comeback, you might want to consider giving different points for different levels.
Start from the top: Getting the champion right (16 points) Second place (8 points) Semifinalists (4 points)
This is just an idea. Please research how other websites do it but right now the award system is lacking.
One suggestion: make it so that each league can modify their rules. The one I'm currently playing gives 1 point for getting the goals of team A, 1 for getting team B, 1 for guessing the winner or a tie and an additional point for getting the exact score. Don't know why but we've always played it that way, and I know there are other quinielas around that have their own rules.
I love that I don't even need to sign up. Great work! I would like to see how you made it (when you get the chance to make a write-up).
If this is popular in the Spanish speaking world, I should try to translate it in Spanish. In case you are up to do it, that would be great ! my email is tistbajean AT gmail DOT com !(there is one file with every sentence in the site, I would say around 10-15min of work)
I am actually just starting a translation service for web sites, apps, documents and basically anything that can be translated. Thanks for letting me shamelessly promote my services haha!
Also: "That's why you're here, aren't you? Do your forecast until the day before the each game, look at the stats, have fun with your friends !" has an unecessary "the" between "before" and "game". I'd rewrite the whole thing as:
"That's why you're here, aren't you? Do your forecast until the day before each game, look at the stats, and have fun with your friends!"
Still kind of an awkward sentence though.
By the way I originally wrote everything in French. If some people prefer this just go to http://nospronos.com
Would it be possible to provide a search bar to search for leagues on the homepage ?
"Keeping URLs safe" seems to be too geeky. I personally don't mind but my friends who join my league won't be so tech oriented.
EDIT: Also, you ask for the league name while creating it. might as well make it convenient for users to use that name. Separately, the URLs for the leagues could be simplified to contain the name instead of numbers.
For the users however the "safe" url is useful otherwise people could guess other people's url and change their predictions!
Note, I haven't registered to provide my own input.
So far the worldcup hasn't begun so everybody is at 0... But when the games are played the ranking will evolve !
See the rules for more precisions : http://nospronos.com/en/regle-jeu
Same concept as Hacker News but with GOOOAALLS instead of news. POST GOALS from your favorite players and vote for the best of them.
I cannot say that the site is ready for production environment but any feedback is appreciated: --===== www.goalgoalgoal.co ====--
ALLEZ LES BLEUS :)
