Bracket Club allows you to enter your NCAA Tournament picks using only your Twitter account. Compete against all of Twitter with just a tweet.
/end-elevatorpitch For reals though, I love brackets so I built a bracket challenge site so I could add all the features I’ve ever wanted. If you also love (or even just like) brackets, you’ll probably have a good time here.
It started as a bit of a gimmick because I wanted to test if you could fit a serialized NCAA tournament bracket in a tweet. It stuck around because I think it’s fun to share your picks on Twitter.
It also has the added bonus that in case someone submits a perfect bracket, I can point to the original tweet in case someone thinks some random little bracket challenge site forged a perfect bracket for the publicity.
Technically yes, but I’d prefer if you didn’t 😄 (meaning that you will still be entered on the site even if your tweet no longer exists). But just think about how you’d want the tweet as proof if you ever filled out a perfect bracket!
Once per Twitter account. If you want to change your entry, just tweet a new bracket from the same account. In fact, you can tweet as many entries as you want from a single account, but only the latest entry will be used as your official one.
At this time, only entries from public Twitter accounts will work.
That’s not yet possible from the site, but if you drop me a line I’ll be more than happy to remove it from the database.
Each round is worth a maximum of 320 points, so each game is worth 320 / GAMES_PER_ROUND, which works itself out to 10, 20, 40, 80, 160, or 320 points per game per round. This has the effect of making games in later rounds worth more than earlier rounds.
Entries are also scored using the Gooley Scoring Method. This is mostly for fun because it makes it easy to see who picked the best upsets or who had the most potential madness in their bracket at the start, but it is also used as the tiebreaker.
NBA and NHLA correct pick in each round from the first round to the championship is worth 12, 25, 50, or 100 points respectively.
Each pick is also awarded a bonus of 3, 6, 12, or 24 points (again going from the first round to the championship) if the correct number of games of that series is predicted as well. However, the bonus is only awarded if the winner is correctly predicted as well as both participants. In the first round you always have the participants correct, so you only need to predict the winner and the number of games.
But if for example, in the 2nd round of the NHL Playoffs you pick Chicago over Minnesota in 7 games, but Chicago ends up beating St. Louis in 7 games, then you would get 25 points for correctly picking Chicago, but you would not get the 6 bonus points because both participants were not correct.
Hey, thanks for asking! I’m Luke. I’ve always been into code and brackets, so I was bound to make something like this eventually. A bunch of it is open source, so if you’re into that sort of thing, you can check it out on GitHub. You can get in touch via email if there’s something bracket related you want to chat about.
I talked about those things and a few others over on my code blog, so you should check that out if you’re really curious.
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