Playoff Predictors Roadmap

Revised 1/25/2018

This roadmap doesn’t represent any guarantees or promises. It serves as a rough outline to what we want to do in the future and highlights the current short-term priorities.

Winter 2018

• NFL
  • 2017-2018 Season concludes with SB LII
• MLB
  • Starting to aggregate team logos, team data, and game data to start development
• Platform and Capabilities
  • Performance improvements to the speed of schedule serialization and game-picking
  • Setup automated systems to update pickers and load schedules for MLB

Spring 2018

• NFL
  • New season predictor as soon as the schedule drops (Usually in late April)
  • Send email to mailing list subscribers notifying that it’s live
• MLB
  • Setup 2018 season schedule
  • Move to Alpha and backtesting prior season schedules
• NBA
  • Concludes with Finals in May/June

Summer 2018

• MLB
  • Move to open Beta testing
• NBA
  • New season predictor as soon as the schedule drops (Usually in August)

Future, but not yet prioritized

These are the sports and features we intend to implement, but have not assigned priority or timelines to.

• Scoring
  • Will be rolled out to all pickers around the same time. Potential premium-only feature due to exponential data usage increase.
  • Predictors dependent on Scoring implementation to break ties:
    • NHL
    • English Premier League
    • MLS
    • World Cup
• NCAA
  • Initial power-5 only (initially)
  • Football
    • Picker-per-conference
    • Playoffs will allow users to decide what teams make it
  • Basketball
• Platform and Capabilities
  • Brackets
    • Should build as games are picked, as opposed to only after the final game has been picked
  • Better email templates
  • Better social media integration
  • Better automated testing and validation