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Sweepdraw

 

Background

I was approached to develop an online tool that generates random sweepstake allocations for a variety of situations and events.

Functionality

In a nutshell, Sweepdraw assigns values to users in a completely random fashion. The random matches generated can not be influenced by any user so all participants in the sweepstake/lottery/draft that is being held can be confident in the knowledge that the process was completed fairly.

The sweepstajke generation process is as follows:

• Someone clicks on the 'Create New' link at the top of the page and creates a new sweepdraw.
• When creating the sweepdraw, the person who carried out step one (hereby referred to as 'the organiser') can decide whether or not participants can add themselves to the sweepdraw, or if they are added by the organiser/administrators only.
• The organiser can then either manually add teams/value to the sweepdraw or select teams/values from one of our set lists.
• Participants do not need to sign up, the sweepdraw that has been created has a login name and password. Once logged into the sweepdraw, participants can view the names of all participants, teams/values and their rankings (optional) plus a message from the organiser.
• Once all teams/values and participants have been added the organiser can click a button to generate matches.
• Step five can only be run once and as soon as it has been, all participants can see the matches that have been made.