Show HN: Group of Death – WorldCup bracket predictor with shareable URLs(groupofdeath.gg)
groupofdeath.gg
Show HN: Group of Death – WorldCup bracket predictor with shareable URLs
https://groupofdeath.gg/
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Is it meant to be purely for tracking the actual matches or for simulating/predictions? The simulations seem to vary wildly on each run
Mostly I wanted a nicer interactive bracket visualizer. I also wanted to be able to easily make a custom calendar for fixture I was interested in. Plus sharing the picks wo/ any serverside state. The whole bracket gets encoded in the URL fragment It's a full snapshot - no reconstruction.
Wow
The calendar feature is nice. I wanted to build my own schedule for the games I was interested in. There is full calendar that you can subscribe to as well, that gets updated as the fixtures get decided. I also wanted to be able to interactively change things and visualize the whole knockout stage.
All the state is in the URL fragment. It's a handrolled compact byte format. About 203 bytes, ~217 characters. The URL has the full snapshot so the link you share always renders the same brackets. It's versioned so I can change the format and not break links out there.
At this point it does everything I wanted it to do for me. Might be some real howlers in there. Let me know if you spot one.