Coder's Bracket
Games
sports bracket game
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
15 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Idea: 11 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun concept that makes learning to code engaging
From 3 comments
Very cool idea.
dangeruss on HNUsing this for Buffet's Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge (because no one is going to win that anyways!)
rschmitty on HNThis is pretty awesome. Would be rad to have something similar for the world cup for us non us sports loving coders.
lukencode on HN
Requests for back-testing against past results
From 2 comments
Could you add the last couple years' brackets and stats as an algorithm tester? Would be cool to run your algorithm against previous years to see how it would have done so you…
yeldarb on HNReally cool. A killer feature would be the ability to test against past years tourney's actual results.
GBond on HN
Objections
Site went down under load
From 2 comments
Site seems dead for me. Anybody have a tl;dr or cached version?
akerl_ on HNIt's back - our servers got a bit overloaded due to the rush.
dy on HN
Tutorial video is slow and the API is unclear
From 1 comment
This is a super neat idea. Thanks so much for making it! Some small comments: I found the tutorial video painfully slow, but maybe you're targeting beginning programmers. All I…
rrradical on HN
Requests
Back-testing against previous years' results
From 2 comments
Could you add the last couple years' brackets and stats as an algorithm tester? Would be cool to run your algorithm against previous years to see how it would have done so you…
yeldarb on HNReally cool. A killer feature would be the ability to test against past years tourney's actual results.
GBond on HN
Source code release
From 2 comments
> Coder's Bracket is the product of an internal open-source project at Fullstack Academy. so, is there source available? Regardless, very cool concept and execution.
netcraft on HNHey netcraft - we built this really quickly so the source is a bit messy - we'll work on open-sourcing it sometime in the near future though.
dy on HN
Access to more team stats data
From 2 comments
Would also be cool to be able to include more detailed data. There's some useful data points exposed at http://madness.io including Tempo-free stats and (not advertised) json…
ncavig on HNNice site. I agree, I'd love to be able to use some of your data points in my algorithm.
mdotc on HN
Questions
Where the data comes from
From 2 comments
This is awesome. Where are the data sources coming from for this? For free throw percentage, etc. I'm assuming this wasn't manually gathered as the teams were just announced…
selectout on HNThis is so cool! What are you using for data?
apawloski on HN
Whether source code is available
From 1 comment
> Coder's Bracket is the product of an internal open-source project at Fullstack Academy. so, is there source available? Regardless, very cool concept and execution.
netcraft on HN
Alternatives named
FiveThirtyEight march madness predictions
From 1 comment
For the Data Scientists out there: http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predictions/
mbesto on HN
madness.io
From 1 comment
Would also be cool to be able to include more detailed data. There's some useful data points exposed at http://madness.io including Tempo-free stats and (not advertised) json…
ncavig on HN
Yahoo bracket contests
From 1 comment
I went to enter my bracket on Yahoo, same as I've done for the last 15 years, and it's demanding to "verify" a mobile number for me, and forcing me to agree to accept marketing…
waterlesscloud on HN