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.