drkenho / sweepstake

Sweepstake generator for 2018 World Cup

Sweepstake

What is it?

A quickly cobbled script to assign sweepstake teams for the 2018 World Cup.

Get started…

Step 1:
$ ruby sweepstake.rb

Step 2:
Enter the names of the people taking part in your sweepstake.

e.g Foz, Bob, Avos, Stavos, Mr Brown, Uncle Trev

Step 3:
Wait for the output and share with the rest of your sweepstake participants.

Example output:

• Player (number of teams assigned): team names

$ ruby sweepstake.rb

Who will be in your sweepstake? (names should be comma separated e.g: Pete, Rob, Kylie)

Foz, Bob, Avos, Stavros, Mr Brown, Uncle Trev

• Foz(6): Poland, Croatia, France, Serbia, Iceland, England
• Bob(5): Morocco, Spain, Australia, Japan, Costa Rica
• Avos(5): Egypt, Colombia, Mexico, Denmark, Tunisia
• Stavros(5): Nigeria, Portugal, Sweden, Argentina, Uruguay
• Mr Brown(5): Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Panama, Russia
• Uncle Trev(6): Iran, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Senegal

To split the teams into Top and Bottom teams

They were done by fifa ranking on 07 June 2018 ( ref: https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/index.html )

Top teams

$ ruby sweepstake1.rb

Who will be in your sweepstake? (names should be comma separated e.g: Pete, Rob, Kylie)

Foz, Bob, Avos, Stavros, Mr Brown, Uncle Trev

• Foz(3): Argentina, Colombia, England
• Bob(2): Germany, Mexico
• Avos(3): Spain, Denmark, Uruguay
• Stavros(3): Portugal, Croatia, Switzerland
• Mr Brown(2): Brazil, France
• Uncle Trev(3): Belgium, Peru, Poland

Bottom teams

$ ruby sweepstake2.rb

Who will be in your sweepstake? (names should be comma separated e.g: Pete, Rob, Kylie)

Foz, Bob, Avos, Stavros, Mr Brown, Uncle Trev

• Foz(2): Costa Rica, Japan
• Bob(2): Nigeria, Serbia
• Avos(3): Saudi Arabia, Sweden, South Korea
• Stavros(3): Senegal, Panama, Morocco
• Mr Brown(3): Australia, Egypt, Russia
• Uncle Trev(3): Iceland, Iran, Tunisia