The Idea
Fantasy football but for GitHub. You draft real developers, build a roster, and score them each week based on their public activity — commits, PRs merged, code reviews, issues closed. Head-to-head matchups, standings, the whole thing.
Inspired by KRAZAM’s FAANGball sketch. Figured it’d be fun to actually build it.
How It Works
- Snake draft with a 30-second timer per pick (auto-picks if you zone out)
- 5 starters + 2 bench — swap your roster before weeks lock
- 13-week season with auto-generated round-robin schedule
- Scoring pulls real GitHub stats weekly via cron: commits (1pt), PRs merged (5pt), reviews (2pt), issues (1-2pt), star streaks (0.5pt)
- AI recaps — Claude generates ESPN-style commentary after each scoring run. Player of the Week, trash talk, the works
Status
MVP is done — all 10 weeks of development complete. Draft, scoring, matchups, standings, recaps all working. Looking at hosting it for real so friends can actually play a season.