small project - competition winner

[practicalli-johnny]

Walk-through of a project to calculate the winner of a competition which involves points awarded for multiple sequential events

Create a practicalli/minimal Clojure project

clojure -T:practicalli/create :name practicalli/competition-predictor

Example competitions

• Formula1 driver championship
• Formula1 constructors championship
• Formula E drivers championship
• American Football
• Austrailian Rules football
• Rubgy Union
• Soccer, e.g. UK Premiership
• esports ?
• other tournaments ??

Each type of competition has its own point scoring scheme and number of events

• consider a data definition to codify the rules of each competition
• then make the code abstract enough to process the rules of each competition by processing the rules data and data from the result of each event.

Interesting feedback

• competition data - number of events, dates, points available for a specific event (i.e. Formula 1 has a sprint race with points at some events, but not all)
• unassailable lead / winder before the end of the competition
• points remaining for leader to win the competition (extend to top 3-5 in competition)
• Prediction of winner based on history of events (limit to current year or small set of years)
• Prediction of number of events remaining before likely winner

Related

• Present lap times of forumula1 https://github.com/practicalli-john/formula1-lap-charts