Introducing: the score feed
This week, I’m happy to announce the newest feature on Crowd Card: the Score Feed.
I created Crowd Card because I believe that judging in MMA (and many other sports) is broken. My primary gripe is that, in most cases, judging in MMA relies on too few judges. One solution - the one I’m pursuing with Crowd Card - is to crowdsource judging to the fans. Why rely on three judges when we can gather and aggregate scores from thousands of fans watching a fight live? Answer: we shouldn’t.
On my initial release of Crowd Card, users could individually score fights live, but had no access to aggregated scoring data from other users on the platform. What good is a crowdsourcing app if you can’t see how the “crowd” scored each fight? Answer: it’s no good at all.
So I created the Score Feed. The Score Feed houses aggregated scoring data from all users on Crowd Card. Navigate to the Score Feed using the main navigation panel, select an event, and then select the fight you’re interested in - voila, you now have access to aggregated scores for the fight as a whole and for each individual round. At the round-level, you can see each fighter’s average score, the percentage of users who called the round in their favor, and the total number of scores that were submitted.
As with all other features, the Score Feed is also available on the web app with an identical user experience:
All users have access to aggregated scores for all events - even those that they did not score themselves. Similar to the My Events page (where users can find their bookmarked events for individual scoring), events on the Score Feed can be filtered by sport and Live & Upcoming / Past status. These filters will help you quickly navigate to event scores that you’re interested in.
To avoid any confusion between the Crowd Scorecard and your individual scorecard, I made some small, clarifying changes to the UI:
Give the Score Feed a spin this weekend during UFC Paris and, as always, please let me know what you think - I rely heavily on user feedback to guide my development roadmap for Crowd Card. And one final note: aggregated fan data becomes more useful with more users on the app. So, if you enjoy using Crowd Card, please share it with friends!
Ok, back to work.
Daniel Kuhman, Founder
