TL;DR I have been building a football elo rating website and decided to use Mapademic on my football players database. Ended up with a game, connecting players through teammates, where you, as a user, also get an elo rating for your football knowledge. To play, click here. Story The video and the summary above probably tells it all but let me put it in a broader context. I am working on a website for elo ratings of European clubs and players. For a new website like mine, it is difficult to get traffic at the initial phase as you all can tell. Just putting the numbers and a bunch of fancy charts took me to somewhere but not at the pace I was wishing for. Judging by the analytics, most people who landed at my app usually spend a few minutes and leave, without any turning back. So I was looking for a way to get users to come back. During this thought process, I came across Mapademic. A wonderful open-source project with an amazing visual level, basically I loved it. The moment I saw it, I thought, why not connecting the players instead of academicians. This made even more sense since my db only contains ~30k players against more than 8M academicians. What It Is You are simply given two players from the top 3000 (based on their elo ratings on my app) and asked to draw a path from one to another through the players who shared the pitch at least once with the previous player. For example, Messi and Ronaldo can be connected via Di Maria as a player who shared the pitch with both GOATs. Based on the ranking of the players, every puzzle has a difficulty level. You get a score based on the length of your chain and other details explained in the video. Then your elo also increases or decreases so that you can show off your friends about how knowledgeable you are. There are other modes of play like Climb where the rating of the player has to increase at each step so it narrows down your options a bit. Just like any player, you also get a elo progression chart and a player page where you can track your games. If you are not a competitive person but a curios one, just go to Explore mode and discover which two players can be connected via which path! Downside Data. The more data, the funnier it gets. However, finding a affordable public data source for line-up data is difficult. The one I have covers back to 2009/10 so some of the old icons are unfortunately not there, or some stats are incomplete (You will see Ronaldo does not have 900 goals yet). Yet, more than 15 years of coverage can also provide a lot of fun! Credits As mentioned, the open-source Mapademic project was the main driver of my work. You can read his post here as well. Where You Can Try Of course it is free to play and no sign-up needed. Only if you want to create a profile, get a persistent elo rating and appear in the leaderboard, you need to sign-up. Simply, click here and start chaining! Feel free to give any kind of questions and comments!   submitted by   /u/Parking-Leader4676 [link]   [comments]