Suggestion, Pac-12 pick'em contest.
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89uteParticipant
Even though this is a simple idea, it’s going to take someone a hell of a lot of time. I lack the skills but I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is and would pay a fee to play or make a contribution to the site to get it off the ground. I wish I would have thought of it sooner because the season starts in a little over two weeks.
A few years ago someone had a pick’em sight but it died about 2-3 years ago. It was http://www.pac12statcentral.com/pickem/login.php
Huge traffic, local sports writers from all the Pac-12 states played as well as fans. It was cool! It was Pac-12 only games, which I like because that is practically all I watch. Especially with the condensed 60 minute rebroadcasts on the Pac-12 channel. I watch a ton of Pac-12 football.
Tony, posting this “Pac-12 Only Pick’em” all over social media will drive interest to Utehub. To my knowledge, no one is doing something like this since the site I referenced above died off.
Even in a worst case scenario, I’d be happy playing with a half a dozen or so other regular posters here. It would be a blast spending my whole week here on Utehub talking about upcoming games, review prior weeks games, critique others’ pics. I want this to happen badly!
Running totals and weekly winners plus over all leader automatically calculated.
Again, I have no skills to pledge, but I will pledge money to see it implemented on the site.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
@89ute VERY cool idea! So this pick ’em would mean a user would pick every game every week with no point spread I assume? So the app would have to have a place for some admin to punch in the games. Then the users would pick their picks and hit submit. Then it would track a leaderboard of sorts.
Sounds really cool. I could definitely build it but not by the time the season starts, especially since I just got a new job. Maybe something done by the Pac-12 conference season is “possible.” I gulp as I say that. It would be days/weeks worth of programming.
I would definitely suggest weekly winners and a season long contest. That way if some miss the first few they can still do the weekly stuff.
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89uteParticipant
Yup, that’s it. weekly winners/competition so people can join anytime and still be part of it. No point spreads, way to much brain damage, just a straight up pick’em, click a radio button or something next to the team you think will win.
I knew it would be some work, but it sounds like it’s more than a lot. Us non-programmer types think people like you can whip this sort of thing up in an afternoon.
Congratulations on the new job.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
I’m mapping it out on some paper now, while also cleaning out the garage. It can get deep pretty fast. I love the idea though. I’ll be working on some concepts.
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UtahParticipant
This would be a ton of fun.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
So far I have a few page ideas.
- Home Page
- Season Standings Leaderboard
- Week by week leaderboard (same format as season, but shows one week)
- User week by week w/l
- Pick ’em form showing each matchup. Form would have to “close” when first game starts. Could be a PITA.
- Edit picks – allow user to change picks as long as the first game hasn’t started
Hmm.. this is going to be quite an undertaking.
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UtahParticipant
If we need to, I could help manually enter in results the first year. It would be a pain in the ass, but I’d be willing to pitch in to make it work.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
I’m going to try and make as much of it automatic as possible. Hopefully the only “manual” entries will be setting the weekly game matchups and dates.
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89uteParticipant
Wow, this is sounding good.
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Wilson’s MustacheParticipant
This sounds like fun. I’d definitely be in.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
Been working on it in my spare time. It’s pretty complicated!
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UteStuckInSeattleParticipant
Not sure what language UteHub is coded in but if it is PHP this might be a good way to get a head-start:
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
Not sure what language UteHub is coded in but if it is PHP this might be a good way to get a head-start:
Yeah I found that. The code is very old. UH is php based.
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CincyUteParticipant
Any chance you can have it done by this weekend? I like to have my picks in early.
Just kidding. This is already a tremendous site and I know it is only going to get better as the season begins. Thank you so much for all your time and hard work!
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
Just working out the database fields, structure, and relationships is wild. This is going to be very cool.
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Tony (admin)Keymaster
Love me some good Utes talk. Thanks for setting this place up.
…just passed out haha. I’m going to put some good time in on it this weekend.
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