Case Study
SportDraft
SportDraft is a fantasy sports platform that lets users create teams, join contests, track player performance, and manage fantasy competitions.
- 5 MonthsDelivery Timeline
- 7 SpecialistsProject Team
- 12 IntegrationsConnected Interfaces
Project Overview
SportDraft is a fantasy sports platform designed to give users a structured way to create fantasy teams, join contests, follow live scores, and review performance. Users can create profiles, select players, build teams, enter available contests, and monitor results throughout sporting events. Administrators manage contests, player data, scoring rules, user activity, and platform operations through a dedicated dashboard. The product was built to bring team creation, contest participation, sports data, scoring, and results into one connected experience. Abhineh Infotech supported product planning, UI UX design, application development, sports data integration, testing, and deployment.
Project Idea
SportDraft was designed to simplify fantasy sports participation by connecting team creation, contest entry, player data, scoring, live updates, and results in one platform.
Fantasy sports platforms involve multiple connected actions, from reviewing player statistics and creating teams to joining contests and following live performance. SportDraft needed to make these steps easy to understand while handling changing player information, contest rules, scoring calculations, and event updates throughout a match.
Abhineh Infotech connected user profiles, player data, team creation, contests, scoring services, live updates, and administrative controls through a structured platform architecture. Sports data could move between external interfaces and platform services while user actions, contest participation, and calculated results remained aligned across the application.
The product principle focused on clarity, speed, and confidence. Users needed quick access to player information, simple team selection, clear contest details, and visible results. The interface was structured to make important fantasy decisions easier to follow while keeping live activity and scoring information accessible.
Challenges
SportDraft supported fantasy players, contest administrators, and platform operators with different responsibilities. Players needed simple tools for team creation and contest participation, while administrators required broader controls for players, contests, scoring rules, and platform activity.
Fantasy sports data can change frequently across player statistics, availability, match events, scores, rankings, and contest participation. The platform needed structured data processing to keep information consistent across user interfaces, scoring services, leaderboards, and administrative tools.
Live sporting events can generate frequent updates within short periods, creating significant processing requirements. SportDraft needed efficient APIs, event based data handling, caching, and scalable infrastructure to keep scores, player performance, rankings, and contest information responsive during active matches.
Project Milestones We Achieved
| Milestone | Tasks | Timeline | Responsible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery and Planning | Mapped player journeys, contest requirements, team creation flows, scoring rules, sports data needs, integrations, and technical architecture. | Month 1 | Product and Engineering Team |
| UI/UX Design | Designed player selection, fantasy teams, contests, live scores, rankings, results, profiles, and administrative interfaces. | Month 2 | UI UX Design Team |
| Core Development | Built authentication, player profiles, team creation, contests, scoring services, rankings, APIs, and administrative foundations. | Month 3 | Application Development Team |
| Integrations and Testing | Connected sports data interfaces, validated scoring workflows, tested live updates, reviewed contest logic, and performed performance testing. | Month 4 | Integration and QA Team |
| Launch and Optimization | Prepared production infrastructure, completed final validation, monitored live event activity, resolved issues, and refined fantasy journeys. | Month 5 | Engineering and Delivery Team |
Project Features
SportDraft combines fantasy team creation, contests, sports data, scoring, rankings, and administration in one platform built around active sporting events.
Signup and Profile
Users can create accounts, manage profiles, review participation history, and access fantasy sports features through personalised settings.
Fantasy Team Builder
Users can select eligible players, create fantasy teams, review selections, and manage team combinations before contest participation.
Contest Management
Users can explore available contests, review entry details, join competitions, and monitor participation through structured contest workflows.
Live Sports Data
Integrated sports data keeps player information, match events, statistics, and performance updates available throughout active sporting events.
Scoring and Rankings
Automated scoring processes calculate fantasy performance and update rankings based on configured contest rules and live player results.
Operations Dashboard
Administrators can manage users, contests, player information, scoring rules, sports data, and platform activity from one interface.
Results
SportDraft launched as a connected fantasy sports platform covering profiles, player selection, team creation, contests, sports data, scoring, rankings, and administration. The delivered product brought the main fantasy sports journey into one structured digital environment.
Centralised administration gave platform teams clearer control over contests, player information, scoring configuration, sports data, and user activity. Automated scoring and connected data workflows also reduced manual handling across important fantasy competition processes.
Users gained a more organised experience from player discovery through team creation and contest participation. Clear player information, contest details, live updates, and ranking visibility helped users follow their fantasy performance throughout active sporting events.
The platform created a foundation for continued fantasy sports expansion. Its architecture can support additional sports, contest formats, scoring models, player statistics, social features, reporting capabilities, and other engagement tools as SportDraft develops.
Development Process
Explore
- Sports Research
- Player Journey Mapping
- Requirement Analysis
- Wireframe Creation
- UI UX Design
- Flow Validation
Implement
- Mobile Development
- Backend Development
- API Development
- Sports Data
- Scoring Services
- Contest Services
Execute
- Functional Testing
- Load Testing
- Security Review
- Production Setup
- Live Monitoring
- Performance Optimization
Typography & colors
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Primary
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Secondary
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Tertiary Color
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Icons Color
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Text Color
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Background Color
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App Visuals
SportDraft
$50k pot
Contests
NFL
Roster
Lineup
Live
Score
Pts
OpenAlerts
Match notices
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Tech Stack
React Native powered SportDraft mobile experiences with a shared application foundation. Go handled high performance backend services for contests, scoring, and live sports activity. PostgreSQL stored structured user, team, and contest data, while Apache Kafka supported event processing. Google Cloud provided scalable infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and application services.
- React Native
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Apache Kafka
- Google Cloud
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