I have created a beach volleyball fantasy game for the Beach Volley Blog. I got it done just in time to take it on a full test drive for the Itapema tournament with the goal of having it ready with every feature by the start of the 2022 season. Check out this article or jump straight to the game here to play. Your brutally honest feedback is welcome and needed. Thanks.
Posted Nov 9, 2021, 12:39 AM UTC
Love this idea! Great thinking with the prediction angle. I think the addition of whether a team is in CQ or Qualifier is really good. However, I didn’t like the lay-out of the teams on laptop. The dragging to top left from really far down the list of teams makes it difficult to work with. Perhaps making the short list of top 5 finishers move along as you scroll down would work. Or a reorganization of how you show the teams. Maybe something like flag icons, with once you click on it that country’s teams will drop down? That might make it more interesting as well, more color maybe?
In other fantasy leagues, teams created will be visible to others in the same league after the match/race is over. Will that happen here as well?
Lastly, in for instance F1 fantasy you can choose a Turbo driver - it doubles the points you score. I would think that perhaps in your game this could work with a prediction that you think you’re extra confident in?
Really cool that you’ve created this!!
Thanks for the feedback and for checking it out.
As soon as the main draw starts the whole interface changes and you will be able to see which teams were picked by everyone else. There is also a tournament leaderboard that becomes visible at that point too. Hopefully with an active and thriving world tour (fingers crossed) there will always be a couple of tournaments on the horizon and one active to make this an even better game.
I agree that the drag and drop gets to be a pain when all of the qualifiers are included. It took me forever to get the drag and drop working and I was using dummy data of only 24 teams. I like your suggestions and have few other ideas for improving. I'll ask anyone who played to help out with a survey at the end and I'll put some of the ideas out there.
I'll think about how to implement a boost pick. In a way, since you are asked to rank the players instead of just choosing 8, you are already giving a boost for your number one pick, but there is a cool idea of the wild card or boost that other fantasy games include. The F1 game lets you have a team of drivers that you keep throughout the season. I have an idea for something similar to that for future development. It is tricky with beach volleyball because unlike F1, not every team plays in every event but i think I have some ways to work around that.
For now I'm glad this worked for you and hopefully we can get more people to sign up an make it a more complete test. If you have friends that like beach volleyball, please invite them to play.
Thanks again
Made a team when I got the email, love this idea. I’ll let you know if I think of anything that could help!
Thanks for letting me know. I hope your picks are working out well so far.