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How about creating a simple site where you simulate a horse race. i.e. give users part of the history data for horses, ask them to select the winners, and then
by Jun8 16y ago
How about creating a simple site where you simulate a horse race. i.e. give users part of the history data for horses, ask them to select the winners, and then reveal the true outcome. People would be betting for boast points.
A discussion board where people can discuss their heuristics for selecting winners would be great. For the famous horses, you can link to its Wikipedia page, Flickr photos, etc. if they exist to create a more immersive experience.
I, for one, would play with such a site for a while.
- Ataraxy 16y agoI think this is a cool idea.
- Ataraxy 16y agoJust to add to this, I would center it around the 'process' of trying to select the winners if this is all being done off historical data, otherwise people will just game the system via google/wikipedia. That being said, I definitely like the idea of having it be a social sort of tool where people compete on the winners. Perhaps using the data you can somehow figure out how to generate random horse races based on real historical data and real horses and then people can really try to pick the winners instead of game the system for points through a simple google search.
- mcgin 16y agoIntersting idea, will add it to the list of potentials