Pick’em Games
| March 23, 2007 @ 9:59 am | Filed under Games, Internet, Software |
I am a fan of fantasy sports games. Because I enjoy them I decided this past year to create my own. My original iteration of the web app has lasted through the BYU football and basketball seasons. I am now in the process of putting together version 1.0 which I am planning on releasing August 1st. In time for some the upcoming NCAA football season. I wanted to get it out a little before the season to take care of any bugs.
For version 1.0 I am using the YUI toolkit to bring some AJAXy stuff into the site. I am also hoping to increase the number of users to more then the 10-15 I’ve had over the first year. One way that I am hoping to draw more people is to provide more then just BYU as a team in the game. As of right now I have plans to add USC and Michigan to the mix. I am hoping to have the multiple team functionality tested well enough to be able add all NCAA Division I teams to the game by the 2008 football season or 2007-2008 basketball season if things go well.
One time consuming part of my current setup is that I have to put all the final scores in by hand. I am looking for a web service that I can use to have the scores entered into the database automatically. If anyone knows of a web service that will provide me NCAA football and basketball scores, please let me know.
You can go check out the old version of the system by going to http://bballpickem.com. The site for the football version is http://football-pickem.com. Go check the sites out (the football site doesn’t have much yet) and get ready to sign up come August 1st and get your friends to do the same. In the near future I am going to put up a poll or two on football-pickem.com to allow people to vote on the importance of features and teams that I am looking at adding.