Website build question

[michaelmc]

Hi guys, just wondering how complicated building a football score predictor website like the example below:

http://predictor.talksport.com

Think it's a good way to engage with customers but just not sure what the cost to build would roughly be?

 

[Voicebooth]

Hi Michael,

Many years ago I developed a spread bet game engine for Reuters Club, a site aimed at Reuters' corporate customers to, as you mention, get more customer engagement.

The games were designed to be fairly simple, involving popular sports such as Football and Formula 1. As a site user, each week you would log in to the site and enter your predictions in terms of scores, and one administrator to the site would update results each week which would add to each site user's additional overall score - your typical fantasy football league type of game.

The main focus of the engagement was actually due to the fact that each game had some pretty decent prices, including being flown off to see the F1 events in person with a friend and so on. They did spend a bit of money on this, but then they did have a fairly generous corporate budget for entertainment.

The original "engine", which is really just fancy talk for a front-end registration and control panel area, and a back-end management side, took around 2 weeks to write, with each game re-branding taking 2/3 days, depending on the variations for the theme of the sport.

Your best bet would be to approach some local media agencies with a small brief on the requirements for the game, and see the kind of quotes you'll get - cost will ultimately be dependent on day rate x time taken to make. I suspect there's a few freelancers on this forum that would probably be able to quote too.

 

[DazRave]

I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't some out-of-the-box systems that do this already too.

Cost purely depends on exactly what you want it to do, we're only ever going to give you a guesstimate without the exact requirements.

 

[Festoon Lighting]

See is such a thing exists in Wordpress, there may well be a plugin that does what you require

 

[websitesunlimited]

You can build a website for free, if you create an account in weebly, wordpress, jux type of websites. You are the boss and can have designs of your choice.