Ask YC: Feedback on a side-project -- Sportsify

by adamhowell • 18 years ago

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adamhowell4• 18 years ago

The idea: A Metacritic/Rotten Tomatoes for sports picks and power rankings.

kleneway• 18 years ago

This is nice, especially as a side project. Here are a couple of quick comments/suggestions: - If possible, it would be interesting to see a ranked list of the sports writers who had the highest accuracy. The writers would probably be interested in that, and the top guys might even link to you (Hey, check it out, I'm #2 on Sportsify!) - Minor bug: the menus for NFL and NCAA Football are really touchy. Unless I do it just right, I can't move my mouse down to the second item before it disappears. - Ability to sort by upsets. For example, it's interesting to see that 100% of commentators picked USC over Oregon State.

adamhowell4• 18 years ago

Re: page to list most accurate - great idea, it's on the todo list.

mrtron• 18 years ago

No NHL?!

tdavis• 18 years ago

The only sport I care about is so often left unrepresented :(

adamhowell4• 18 years ago

Yea sorry I only focused on the biggest fan draws at launch - if it goes anywhere NHL and college bball will be the first added.

walesmd• 18 years ago

I would love to see the spread incorporated in the gameday picks

OneSeventeen• 18 years ago

The USC loss highlights something to me: It was hard for me to tell what information was being displayed. I totally missed the news on that game (fail) so I saw USC in bold and assumed they'd won and didn't know what the big red box meant.

Maybe I'm just a space cadet and that's not actually confusing, but I found it unintuitive. I'd bold the winner after a game has been played and maybe make a note in smaller type below that the prediction was the other guy. And keep the red box.

Anyway, interesting idea.

run4yourlives• 18 years ago

No, I had no clue what any of it meant either.

I was confused as to why they were bolded when they had the lower score too.

adamhowell4• 18 years ago

My thinking here was Sportsify isn't a place to check scores, it's a place to see who the favorite was - but I've had a few folks share your confusion so I'll probably tweak this.

antiismist• 18 years ago

I'm a sports junkie so this could be up my alley.

First impression: looks like a web 2.0 social aggregator site, which is not what I am looking for in a sports site. I'm looking for new articles about the few teams that I am following.

Second: Where are the week four picks for NFL? I don't care about what happened in the past...

Third: How is this a pick in favor of Green Bay (and where is the link?): “Right now, it's hard to be against the Cowboys. That offense is clicking and so hard to stop. Throw in special teams play like Felix Jones returning kickoffs and a team has to be ready to score or it'll be left behind. That said, Green Bay can win this game...”

Fourth: I do want to see the spreads

Anyway, good luck!

mihasya• 18 years ago

Props for not calling it a startup! I def. think this is something avid sports fans, and particularly gamblers, could probably use, but I would echo the concern that it is confusing visually.

voidfiles• 18 years ago

This has been mentioned already but more meta statistics would be cool, like who has the best track record. I think it would be intresting to measure rightness and wrongness on a weekly basis. Like this week, 70% of the were correctly called. You could determin something along the lines of, people who pick NFL games, are better then those who pick NCAA. If this is just a side project, you could get people to do the meta analysis by providing an api, or do dumps of the data the people can download and process. I was thinking to myself how cool it would be to go and get the same data and do some of that stuff, but it would take me forever to do the scrapping that I think your doing.

Ask YC: Feedback on a side-project -- Sportsify

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