/weighted-bracket-picker

A March Madness bracket picker using weighted statistics

Primary LanguageHTMLGNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

weighted-bracket-picker

A March Madness bracket picker using weighted statistics. Provides historical data back to 2010 as well as up to date data through the current season.

Features

  • Switch between tournament years using the dropdown in the center to compare scores historically, then use the current year to build a bracket based off the seeding.
  • Share your weights using the url in the input field at the top
  • Come back later and your weight choices will persist via cookies

Technical Info

  • Data comes from http://stats.ncaa.org/ and is stored in the CSV files within the repo
  • Because none of this requires server-side processing, the app is able to live in an entirely static environment on github.io
  • The list of stats and their slides is dynamically generated based on the CSV files
  • Different years have different numbers of play-in games. This tool is able to account for that based on the number of teams with identical seeds.

To Do List

  • Come up with better visual representation of bracket (canvas? reactjs?)
  • Extend this beyond march madness to support other sports, or any sort of tournament with publically available statistics