Ok, so I would like the community's thoughts on this if anyone here is into Fantasy Sports and Trading Card Games. We know that Fantasy Sports are points based games. Most Trading Card games utilize the cards attributes for points. I am going to begin laying out the point scheme for the game and Fantasy MMA is fairly simple but I have to find the best way to implement the trading cards. I hope we can come up with some unique uses.
So, in Fantasy MMA Pick 'Em you are rewarded points for:
Choosing the winner of the fight
Choosing the way the fight is won
Choosing the round in which the fight is won
Choosing the minute of the round the fight is won
Bonus points for choosing all 4 of the above correctly
Usually, it's a 10 point bonus for choosing all 4 categories correctly. It's rare to hit this. While choosing the winner and how they win can be somewhat easy if you follow the sport and really look at each fighter and the % of how they win fights. Choosing the round and the minute are difficult. You do have some data from prior fights to see if they finish fights in earlier or later rounds and the typical minutes. But that is still very random.
So, when you introduce another way to have bonus via trading cards there are a few ways that you can do this. It needs to be based on risk and reward, how often that card type can be used on one fight card, etc.
Different types of cards:
Fighter Cards - Play the fighter card and if they win you receive say 5 bonus points, if they draw you receive 3 bonus points, if they lose you receive 0 points. You can only play this once per fight card because they only fight once on the card.
Finish Cards - Play the finish card and if ANY of the fights on the card are finished in this way, you receive points. I would say that because you can choose Decision, Knockout, Technical Knockout or Submission, and multiple fights on the card can be won in this way, you have a potential to gain many points. This needs to be considered in the risk and reward department. Are you more likely to gain a few points out of 8 fights? I would say your chances are greater to gain points there than with the fighter cards because between 2 fighters in one match, it's a 50/50 chance either way.
Specific Finish Cards - These are similar to Finish Cards but more specific. I can have 8 fights and choose the Submission Card and 4 fights end in submission. But if I choose the Armbar Card, you only receive points for armbars. I would say the risk is greater to choose a specific submission or strike over choosing the vague Submission Card, so the reward should be greater. Now compare submissions to strikes. Submissions have one category. Striking has two categories to win, either by Knockout or Technical Knockout. You also have to consider if a fighter is cut or injured that a fight can end in a Doctor's Stoppage and that's considered a Technical Knockout.
So, there is a lot to consider when you add these points. When you consider the difference in choosing the winner of a fight and having a 50/50 chance for your Fighter Card to gain you points based on picking 1 match, it is totally different than using a Submission Card and having the chance to gain points from multiple matches on the fight card.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this project and any input or ideas that you have.
The artist is working on some of the artwork for the first basic cards. I will also be doing a special set of cards that I design
Put them graphic design skills to use.
I have been talking with a few other devs who may be able to take this from a form input game and put this to an actual fantasy MMA site.
We are also waiting on news for the Counterparty mobile wallet IndieSquare available on iOS & Android. They are developing an API that allows you to use Counterwallet on mobile and websites. This should make it easier for any site to implement Counterparty transactions. Much easier to use an API than develop your own code from scratch. The podcast interview stated that this version is scheduled for late January 2016. I asked IndieSquare if this was for the mobile version or web version first, and he was not sure which one would be released first. But their wallet on mobile is awesome and getting better. They are working with SOG. I am hoping when the time comes we can work closely to make our actual website easy to use.
Another thing to consider is how we make it easy for average MMA fans who are not into Bitcoin or Counterparty. I know Adam from letstalkbitcoin said that swapbots would integrate credit cards from Stripe eventually. I think as long as users can purchase OCTO & OCTO Trading Cards from us with credit cards and not bitcoin, you will have an easy on ramp for non bitcoin people.
