Pickems X is an app which allows members to predict who will win sports games.

You can break a pickem down into weeks, with games for each week, or you can disable weeks and keep adding games to the contest overall. The member with the most correct picks wins the contest.

Some other features currently included: optional tiebreaker when determining the winner, allow members to predict ties/draws, set the system to use either the word tie or draw, enter a result of canceled for its result to not count one way or the other, reminder notifications sent close to the start of each week/contest, and more.

I have the system prepared for some future features, as well, such as allowing for more than 1 point for some games and career stats, which I didn't have time to get in yet.

 

I submitted a new version of this. I forgot to mention in the changelog that I also took category permissions into effect for latest poll widgets and other pages where it was showing them regardless of those settings.

Once it is downloadable and you install the new version, you will need to edit your categories because I changed a permission and added a new permission in it.

I had mostly finished brackets, but still some hiccups, so took most of the code for it back out and will have to add those some other time.

There are some new features, such as ability to let members predict which team will win a pickem and which scorer will be the top scorer. These are all custom features someone had me add in, which were allowed to be in the download here. Another feature is ability to let members predict exact scores instead of only the winner of a game.

If you do not want to use those new features then you might as well turn advanced tiebreakers off because that pretty much just uses those new features to break ties at the end of the pickems.

 

I'm very interested in this.  Is there a demo somewhere, or would someone that has installed it share their URL to look at it?

I also would love to have the bracket to use basketball conference championships and NCAA champ.

Will you continue to develop and support this?  With the price, I'm a little nervous after reading the history, TBH.

Thanks.

I basically finished the bracket part, except 2 issues were 1. a bug in the type of form/setup I was using and nobody would ever answer me about it on the various dev forums and 2. I couldn't ever get the bracket to look like a bracket because I'm not good at design. We have a long time before the next ncaa tournament, though. As far as conference tournaments, I'm not sure because of how they are all so different, with different numbers of teams having byes, etc... I have this one where play in games can be used so technically the code is there to allow for byes, but I guess I'd have to just get it working with different numbers of teams.

In a past sports app I made, I basically had to just specifically put in different playoff types, such as nhl playoffs, nba playoffs, etc... because of the different rules. In nhl and nfl they reorder teams after the first round, so some of these are too tricky to have it work automatically, without just hardcoding in different examples.

As far as the history, for a long time nobody was seeming to need it updated and I was wanting to test it live, but was on shared hosting since I haven't really done as much programming for a while. So didn't have php 8 and also had more health issues. Usually, my apps have barely anything needing to change to work on the latest ip.suite versions, though. What slowed this up back for 4.5/4.6 was me trying to get the brackets in. I should have just released it first without them for those versions. I'm mainly just wanting to get them done far ahead of the next ncaa tournament.

The app definitely functions very well and has a lot of stats (some stored ones I don't use at this point).

Edited June 30, 20231 yr by Midnight Modding

 

I knocked $15 off the price for a while

Just in case you mean that you did that in here - purchases were disabled on 15th September.

 

Just in case you mean that you did that in here - purchases were disabled on 15th September.

wow, really? I wish I had known that. All i saw was the closing date and the payout deadline.