Jumbotipper - the meta tipping engine
When Dr. Michael Green PhD is not working out clever ways of using Magnetic Resonance Imaging at The Prince of Wales Medical Institute, most likely he's watching sport. A certified sports fanatic, Dr Mike's interest is not just limited to the fanatical devotion to a single team or sport.
His enthusiasm led him and a small group of buddies to devise a unique tipping competition. Based on a humble Excel spreadsheet, the first incarnation of Dr. Mike's tipping contest pitted sports like Power Boat racing and Golf against Horse racing and Moto GP. This mix of sports in a single contest offered something above and beyond traditional tipping competitons that focused on one single sport and group of teams or contestants.
But before long the complexity and lack of flexibility of the spreadsheet became a barrier to the concept, and Dr Mike started to think about a more distributed, smarter approach. The child of that thought process is Jumbotipper - the meta tipping engine.
Smartsite could see the potential of the project on a global scale - envisaging a system capable of tracking every major profesional sporting competition in the world, allowing individuals to create their own tipping contests. That's the long term goal of Jumbo tipper, but the initial aim is a proof of concept limited to a small group of Australian professional sporting competitions.
Phase one will produce a website allowing people to set up their own tipping competitons, similar to sites that cater for specific events like Football and Rugby. It will incorporate e-commerce to allow participants to pay to be in the contest, as well as automatically paying out winners at the end of each round, and at the end of the competition.
Phase two will allow people to set up tipping competitions with two or more sports, or two or more events in them, and incorporate a more user freindly user interface. RSS feeds will allow admins to incorporate rankings and event results into their own websites. Phase three will allow users to create custom tipping competitons covering events anywhere in the world, with a host of tools to automate fetching of results, team listings, and rankings.
Development of later stages will be funded by Goodle ads placed on the Jumbotipper website.