Very nice. I've run a marginally similar site for a few years that I had just decided to sunset (http://randombracket.com). Too much work for about four days of usage :)
I'm glad I have your site to use now.
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#42This is so cool! What are you using for data?
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#43Would 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 endpoints, http://madness.io/teams/uaa.json
Full disclosure: I released this site a few weeks ago, mostly as a side project. I submitted to Show HN but it didn't get much traction. Might be of use though.
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#44This is really great!
I'd be very interested in the data and the code behind the generator function. I'd love to integrate it with my bracket-generator module (which is very basic and only does lower seed, higher seed, and random currently).
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#45Sorry if this sounds dumb... but what's a bracket?
Re: Show HN: March Madness for Hackers
#46Sorry if this sounds dumb... but what's a bracket?
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#47Using this for Buffet's Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge (because no one is going to win that anyways!)
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 txts. There's no way for me to "verify" a mobile number without agreeing to marketing txts. There's no way for me to create a bracket without "verifying" a mobile number. Yeah, no. And thus ends my 15 years of using the site for this, with an…
Use a throw-away GVoice account?
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#48This is pretty awesome. Would be rad to have something similar for the world cup for us non us sports loving coders.
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#49Could 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 can refine it before submitting. I'm imagining coloring the final bracket green/red for correctly/incorrectly predicted games in the simulation.
Off topic - did you ever play Wizardry?
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#50Just as naive but fun to look at:
function(game, team1, team2){
if (team1.rpi > team2.rpi) {
team2.winsGame();
} else {
team1.winsGame();
}
I want to custom build from a known index via ESPN but don't if the team objects hold all the stats necessary.