I've started building this year's playoff brackets, with more to come in the coming days. Please let me know, ASAP, if you know about teams clinching playoff spots (especially in TAPPS). Anyways, I also wanted to take a minute to let y'all know there will be a few changes coming to the brackets this year.
No More Playoff Pick 'Em
Sorry y'all! Some of y'all caught on a few days ago when I mentioned this is the last week for the pick 'em, even though we did a playoff pick 'em last year. Well that will be no more. I hit a snag a few months back, and I've been working on this for quite some time now, but I'm happy to say I figured that out within the last few days. So, this year I'm introducing a six-man football playoff bracket challenge! Once the first-round games are all finalized and added into the system, all playoff brackets for UIL and TAPPS will be opened up for divisional challenges. Fill your bracket, by simply clicking on each team you think will win, add in a championship game score, for a tie-breaker, and submit! The best part is that you can keep going back to edit your bracket as many times as you like up until the first playoff game is scheduled to start. Players will get 2 points for each correct pick in the first-round, then the points will double for each round going through the playoffs.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to get TAIAO brackets added to the challenge pool this season because of the crossover that happens. Hopefully we can talk TAIAO out of that before next year (probably not) or, more likely, I can figure out how to get that coded into the site before next season gets here. Again, sorry y'all!
I will, hopefully, get the new playoff brackets installed on the site at some point early tomorrow evening. The site will be offline for (hopefully) less than 5 minutes while I get the update done. I know it's not ideal to install on a Thursday, game day, but, having just now finished these up today, I'm running short on time to get them installed here to make sure there aren't any bugs in the system before the brackets are finalized and opened up for the challenge. Also, once I do get them installed, there will be a short time when all the playoff brackets will appear to have been wiped out. That's simply because the new system isn't compatible with the old, so I basically have to start over with the new ones.
That's it for now. I'll let y'all know when everything is installed and, especially, when the brackets are opened up for submission!
New Look
I've never really liked the way the playoff brackets look. Not that they're terrible, but they just look a little flat. So this year I've given them a bit of a facelift. I'm sure most folks either won't notice, or won't care honestly, but I just wanted to give a heads-up.Automated Filling
The way the playoff brackets work now is that I have to manually add every team into the playoff brackets in every slot, from the first-round all the way to the championship games. Now the brackets will auto-fill the later rounds as soon as I finalize the scores. I've also added a way to quickly add a game into each team's schedule of that matchup, in case it doesn't already exist. By default, these games will be added with TBD date/time/location, but that's easy enough to add later. This probably doesn't mean much to a vast majority of y'all but it will sure save me a ton of time (probably not nearly as much time as it took me to code all this, unfortunately, but I digress).No More Playoff Pick 'Em 
Sorry y'all! Some of y'all caught on a few days ago when I mentioned this is the last week for the pick 'em, even though we did a playoff pick 'em last year. Well that will be no more. I hit a snag a few months back, and I've been working on this for quite some time now, but I'm happy to say I figured that out within the last few days. So, this year I'm introducing a six-man football playoff bracket challenge! Once the first-round games are all finalized and added into the system, all playoff brackets for UIL and TAPPS will be opened up for divisional challenges. Fill your bracket, by simply clicking on each team you think will win, add in a championship game score, for a tie-breaker, and submit! The best part is that you can keep going back to edit your bracket as many times as you like up until the first playoff game is scheduled to start. Players will get 2 points for each correct pick in the first-round, then the points will double for each round going through the playoffs.Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to get TAIAO brackets added to the challenge pool this season because of the crossover that happens. Hopefully we can talk TAIAO out of that before next year (probably not) or, more likely, I can figure out how to get that coded into the site before next season gets here. Again, sorry y'all!
I will, hopefully, get the new playoff brackets installed on the site at some point early tomorrow evening. The site will be offline for (hopefully) less than 5 minutes while I get the update done. I know it's not ideal to install on a Thursday, game day, but, having just now finished these up today, I'm running short on time to get them installed here to make sure there aren't any bugs in the system before the brackets are finalized and opened up for the challenge. Also, once I do get them installed, there will be a short time when all the playoff brackets will appear to have been wiped out. That's simply because the new system isn't compatible with the old, so I basically have to start over with the new ones.
That's it for now. I'll let y'all know when everything is installed and, especially, when the brackets are opened up for submission!
