Pigskin Boss: Fantasy Football & Polls
Client & Project Overview
Pigskin Boss is a mobile-first fantasy football and polls platform aimed at engaging sports fans by letting them build fantasy teams, participate in weekly contests, and vote in polls about games, matchups, players, and more. The goal was to combine real-time sports data, social interaction, and gamification to increase fan engagement.
Client & Project Overview
- Existing fantasy football apps were lacking in the polls or community-interaction dimension. Client wanted to add polls and make them a central feature.
- Needed real-time updates for scores, players, match schedules.
- User experience had to be smooth on both iOS and Android.
- Scalability: flash traffic spikes during big games.
- Secure login / user data privacy.
Goals & Objectives
- Build an app with fantasy team setup, player drafts, scoring engine
- Integrate poll creation & voting (for matches, players, etc)
- Provide push notifications and live updates
- Design an intuitive UX that sports fans can use easily
- Ensure backend can handle high concurrency
Role & Scope
- Architecture & Backend: Design of scalable server infrastructure, APIs to fetch sports data (e.g. live scores)
- Mobile App Development: Native or cross-platform (depending on project) for Android & iOS
- UI/UX: Wireframes, interactive prototype, branding for Pigskin Boss
- Polling & Social Features: real-time voting, leaderboards, social sharing
- Testing & Quality Assurance: ensure reliability during high load
Solution & Key Features
- Fantasy league module: users can create leagues, drafts, select teams
- Poll module: allows admin or even users (depending on settings) to create polls; live voting; results dashboards
- Live updates : push notifications for match start / end, score changes, poll closing
- User profiles , authentication, social share features
- Dashboard & analytics for admin to track usage, poll participation , etc.
Challenges & How We Overcame Them
- Data latency: real-time sports data can be delayed or inconsistent; we implemented caching, fallback, and data verification logic
- Load performance: On match days, traffic spikes; we scaled backend via load balancing, optimized database queries, used efficient push notification services
- Cross-platform issues: Ensured consistent behavior across device types, screen sizes, OS versions by rigorous testing
Design & UX Approach
- Clean, sporty UI theme with intuitive navigation between leagues, polls, live match info
- Emphasis on minimal loading: caching, pre-loading of data
- User onboarding flow that explains how fantasy + poll features work
Results & Impact
- X% increase in daily active users in first N months
- High poll participation: average poll votes per user rose by Y%
- Reduced crash / downtime during peak matches
- Improved engagement: time-spent per session, repeat visits
Key Learnings & Future Plans
- Dedicating resources early to test under load is essential
- User education around fantasy and polls features helps retention
- Future plans: add live chat, more interactive content, more sports, monetization (premium features etc