March 17, 2003

A review of Web NCAA bracket interfaces : lets you scratch your web design and b-ball itches at the same time.

posted by kirkaracha to basketball at 11:56 AM - 6 comments

Ooo. I like. The usability of sports interfaces. This guy should design the Florida ballot for next year!

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:13 PM on March 17, 2003

the interface he designed for kusports.com is really nice and clean too. and the PDF feature is very cool. don't like the amount of scrolling however. i'm a fan of yahoo's plain html select lists too. sucks they don't show you the seedings as you go along though.

posted by danostuporstar at 12:23 PM on March 17, 2003

Cool. Years ago I used to buy several newspapers in search of the best bracket. (Okay, I'm a geek.) Last night I went in search of the best .pdf to print out. I've generally found the NYT to be top notch, although I don't like that it's portrait rather than landscape. What I want: lines, not bubbles; seed numbers on the outside in the righthand bracket; records; enough room on the lines to write in the winners; the East region in the upper right; no Chevy Trucks logo over the Final Four. Ah, the small things that please me...

posted by Mookieproof at 12:40 PM on March 17, 2003

His own version is probably the best of the bunch. I didn't mind the Yahoo! version, but it's a bit tedious to have to choose the final team in a bracket from the 16 listed. I'm not sure if there was a slick HTML way of narrowing the choices automatically (say, to the final two teams) but I'm just nitpicking. What I'd love to see is some method of RANDOMLY picking teams and submitting those to contests to see if they do better than regular thought-out selections. Or picking the final four and having the rest of the selections filled in at random.

posted by grum@work at 12:44 PM on March 17, 2003

Direct link to the kusports.com bracket.

posted by kirkaracha at 02:07 PM on March 17, 2003

I guess I'm old school, but I like writing the damn things out by hand. That said, I joined the Yahoo tourney, liked how it worked and I'm pretty damn sure I'm the only guy in the country with Xavier coming out on top. Plus, I love a post with the words "ball" and "itches" used consecutively.

posted by wfrazerjr at 05:31 PM on March 17, 2003

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