MySportsIQ Offers Sports Predictions Gamified in Time for the March Tournament
SEATTLE, WA and LOS ANGELES, CA – March 17, 2011– As March heats up and the tournament tips off, AccuScore, the definitive pre-game resource for serious sports fans; and BigDoor, the free gamification platform; today announce an interactive way for sports fans to make predictions of all the games on http://www.MySportsIQ.com. The site utilizes the BigDoor API and is built on AccuScore’s sports simulation engines powering the game and projection data.
MySportsIQ is the first step in bringing sports fans a complete, competitive and level prediction game to show off their sports knowledge. Visitors to MySportsIQ.com make predictions throughout the basketball tournaments (and other sports) while leveraging the AccuScore prediction to help them win. With in-depth questions about the games and the players, visitors to the site unlock tips and earn virtual coins as they make their correct predictions. Structured like a deck of cards, the games start over each day so the playing field is level. Prizes and other awards will be coming soon.
“The ability to make in-depth player projections has really resonated with sports fans,” said Jason Manasse, CEO of AccuScore. “MySportsIQ allows basketball and all sports fans the chance to become the smartest sports prognosticator by making their predictions based on who will win or lose and how the players will perform in the game. As the game grows, we will also be able to crowd source predictions to provide another source of information.”
“MySportsIQ did a great job of leveraging the flexibility of the BigDoor API,” said BigDoor co-founder and CEO Keith Smith. “AccuScore’s powerful projection engine plugs in easily with BigDoor and visitors to the site can quickly begin making predictions while earning virtual currency and social rewards within their social graph.”
About AccuScore (accuscore.com)
AccuScore is the definitive pre-game resource for serious sports fans. We deliver accurate, robust pre-game information and statistics on AccuScore.com and on partner networks consisting of ESPN, CBS Sports, Yahoo!, The Wall Street Journal, and 80+ local TV and Newspaper websites. AccuScore is powered by a patent pending simulation engine that delivers the most comprehensive and accurate sports forecasts. The simulation engine plays each game play by play at least 10,000 times and produces over 500,000 pages of sport and player information.
About BigDoor
BigDoor provides a free gamification platform that helps companies build game mechanics and loyalty programs into their site or app through points, badges, levels, leaderboards, virtual currency and virtual goods. The BigDoor platform is extensible in order to allow a wide variety of apps to be built on top of it and is enabling an ecosystem where publishers, developers, content providers and advertisers can all interact and realize benefits well beyond what can be gained by building these features in-house. For more information, visit www.bigdoor.com or follow us on Twitter @bigdoormedia and @ChiefDoorman.
Contacts:
Zach Rosenfield, AccuScore
zach@accuscore.com
310-258-9402 x206
Carrie Peters, BigDoor
206-579-3804
carrie@bigdoor.com
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