How Does The Automatic Prediction Ranking Calculator Works in Brackets Tournaments?

One of the strongest features of Brackets Ninja is the ability to create prediction brackets (you may read all about them here).

After the tournament begins, and your users start to enter their predictions (Pick'em Brackets), you might want to know who managed to predict who won on each game. Well, exactly for that we created an extremely powerful feature we call "Automatic Ranking Calculator" (which is available in the predictions panel - see screenshot below). The automatic ranking calculator will take each prediction entry and will give it a score based on a ranking system you set.

How Does The Calculation Work?

 Our calculation is very simple. By default, the score is a percentage of correct predictions per game in a bracket (comparing to the original bracket).

Let's the bracket below for a reference:

User 1 predictions:

User 2 predictions:

Since User 1 had only 4 correct game predictions, his score will be 57(%). User 2, who managed to nail it for all games, will get the score of 100(%).

If you want, you may use instead a ranking system based on points. To do that, go to the "Predictions" panel, under the Predictions Ranking System category, select the field of Type and you will have 3 options to choose from:

• Success Percentage - number of correct predictions (by game) vs number of games in the tournament
• Equal points for all games - equal points per round - a number that defines how many points each correct guess worth.
• Round based points - you may define how many points each correct guess worth per game per round (mostly the more you get close to the final game, the more points you get). 

After you select a new ranking system, don't forget to click the Calculate Ranking button again!

Questions? Suggestions? Let us know!