This is a program made with R / ggplot2 that machine processes ballots, winners, and plots standings for your Oscars pool.
Key features (and the reasons for the program's existence, since I wasn't able to find any web based system that offered these things):
- Quickly determine where you and your friends stand in your pool during the ceremony with a multi-layered plot
- Tailor a points system for your pool, e.g. 5 points for correctly picking Best Picture
- Blind ballots- it's no fun when the picks in your pool are totally homogeneous; blind ballots encourage everyone to do a bit of research rather than follow the pack, and this gives you that option
- Create HTML tables of everyone's picks
Here are the full results and picks from my pool for the 2015 awards, with just the standings plot below.
How does it work?
- Send
ballot_2015.txtto your friends - Have them write their name under "name:" duh
- Have them make their picks by deleting the nominees who they think will lose
- That's it (i.e. instruct your pool to not otherwise alter the ballot; the
~and:characters, for instance, are needed for parsing)
Once you've received everyone's ballots, place them in data/completed_ballots and source oscars.R. If desired, alter the number of points per category in winners.csv. During the ceremony, update winners.csv with the winners in each category (exactly as they're named on the ballot) and the order that they're announced, and then call Plot(df) to create the standings plot. Feel free to test with the data included in samples
Enjoy!