MASHUP MADNESS!!! NCAA Hoops Contest Winners!
Hot Hoops, Cool Mashups, Hot Prizes
Congratulations to the Winners! The mashups submitted were extraordinary in
their usage of The Sports Network NCAA
Basketball API to create useful applications.
Grand Prize Winner:
Robbie Allen - Statsheet.com
Rankings in
Motion
Services Used: TSN NCAA Web Service and STATS Inc web service
Description: Ever wondered how fluid the AP Top 25 is over the
course of the season? Now you can see the poll in motion, starting from the
preseason to the most recent poll.
MashUp Winner
David Schmierer - EditGrid
NCAA Game Summary
Services Used: TSN NCAA Web Service
Description: Mashup uses EditGrid’s online spreadsheet
application to load data from TSN Men’s College Basketball Web service provided
by StrikeIron. Games are loaded daily and can be selected from a menu bar
option (“Today’s Games”). For each game users can select to load:
i. Game Summary that includes home and away team stats and game summary.
ii. Home Team In-Depth or Away Team In-Depth which includes teams stats,
starting lineup and injuries.
iii. Game lines for each game from all bookmakers
Social Application Winner
Steve Chan – AppTsunami
Bracket Madness for Facebook
Services Used: TSN NCAA Web Service
Description: Bracket Madness is a game you play with your
friends while following the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. You get points
for each winner your pick and see how well you do against your friends.
The application runs as a native application both on FAcebook and the hi5
social network with native look- and-feel. Technically the application is
developed in single-source on both social networks by using open source tsunami
framework (http://singleforge.net/projects/tsunamiframework/) to support both
platforms. Achieving single-source (including StrikeIron API) allows the
developer to minimize the engineering, operation and maintenance costs while
reaching a wider audience. The application involves complex AJAZ user
interaction for the user to enter bracket selections. The application calls
multiple StrikeIron SOAP API’s to retrieve multiple data rows and performs
one-the-fly “relational join” to integrate the data in a single easy-to-read
webpage. The application retrieves up-to-date information from StrikeIron, thus
providing the user incentive to return frequently.
Honorable Mentions:
Jon Feller and Artem Papkov – IBM (not submitted as part of contest, but well worth
mentioning!)
Lotus Mashup Demo (YouTube Demo)
Services Used: TSN NCAA Web Service
Description: This demo utilizes the Lotus Mashups environment
to combine data from StrikeIron's Men's College Basketball Web Service with
data from Yahoo! Maps Service, Yahoo! Local Service, and AccuWeather. By
combining these data sources into a mashup application, a fan of a college
basketball team easily find restaurants and weather at the basketball arena
site.
Robbie Allen - Stats Sheet
Services: TSN NCAA Web Service, Google Maps, Yahoo UI Library, Yahoo Geocoding
Library, MIT Simile Timeline
Complete
Conference Tournement Info
Services Used: TSN NCAA Web Service
Description: Complete conference tournament information for
each of the 30 Division I conferences including location, seeding, and
brackets. The brackets are dynamically updated based on the completion of
games. You can also view a printable version of each bracket. I'm not aware of
any other site on the web that has all of the conference tourney info in a
single spot nicely collated with constantly updated brackets.
GeoCommunications - Fantasy NCAA Tournament
Bracket Fanatic
Services Used: TSN NCAA Web Service
Description: Users get together and draft individual players
from teams in the tourney. The scoring for the fantasy part is all based on the
individual player points throughout the tournement.