We are an open community of fans and experts who discuss and predict sporting events.
SportSteem is also:
- An Opportunity to Earn Extra Steem Dollars for Your Accurate Predictions Through Upvotes, Backlinks, and Achievement Rewards by @sportsteem
- A Blockchain-Secured Track Record of Budding Sports Analysts
- The Steem-Powered SportSteem.com Prediction Site and Public Resource
Why SportSteem and Why Now?
- There is a need for an expert-driven information source to complement the emergence of prediction markets and the evolving legal status of sports betting.
- Key properties of blockchains – immutability, longevity, transparency, and reliability – can vastly improve trust in the record-keeping, reputation tracking, and availability of sports handicappers.
- Thanks to Steem rewards, users that may traditionally be unlikely to place a wager can now profit from prognosticating sporting events, all without ever needing to gamble.
- To take the lead in developing Steem subcommunities facilitated by custom user interfaces and metrics tailored to the niche.
- To vastly improve sports content on Steem and its discoverability.
- @sportsteem is our connection to the existing Steem / Steemit community.
- Starting now, we’ll be keeping everyone informed about our progress in building SportSteem. We can’t wait to hear what the rest of the community thinks.
- Once we launch, @sportsteem will be the mouthpiece for the community, sharing all the excitement generated by our experts and the games themselves.
- We’ll actively promote quality content and winning analysts through the use of backlinks in our postings as well as by upvoting those predictions directly, thereby increasing value to our members versus entirely independent handicappers.
- Our system will automatically track prediction records and issue rewards when members use the #sportsteem tag.
- All Steem Dollars go towards our SBD Jackpot (see below) and funding further development. This will always be 100% transparent on the blockchain.
- The Steem Power held by @sportsteem will improve the influence of our subcommunity within the greater Steem community.
About our SBD Jackpot
- Similar to ESPN’s Streak for the Cash, we’ll reward members for correctly predicting a certain number of games in a row.
- The Jackpot is funded by the total Steem Dollars earned by the @sportsteem account.
- For example, making 10 correct picks in a row might earn you 10% of the Jackpot; 20 in a row could net you 50%.
- The “wins in a row” will be adjusted based on the actual odds of the picks in the streak. Picking underdogs would accelerate your streak while choosing favorites will require more correct picks.
- We’re building SportSteem.com as a site where you’ll be able to log-in with your Steem credentials and easily submit your picks and analysis based on the latest odds.
- You’ll get your own profile page to describe your analytical approach and, over time, you’ll build up a reputation as a sports expert. You’ll establish a record, ROI, and earn badges for your achievements – all of which we’ll store forever on the Steem blockchain.
- We’ll provide tools for community discussion and gathering, including real-time chat on SportSteem.com so everyone can watch the games together.
- SportSteem is a public resource where anyone, even non-Steemians, can find valuable information on upcoming sporting events and where we’ll provide tools such as leaderboards and charts to facilitate information discovery and recognition of achievements within the community.
- Using SportSteem.com is completely optional for our members. We’ll provide instructions on how you can easily track your picks with us when you post on Steemit.com or anywhere else on the Steem network.
Sounds Awesome – How Can I Get Involved?
- We’re every bit as excited as you are. We want to hear from you in the comments!
- We’re looking for talented people to join our team. If you’re a developer, a skilled marketer, or a Steem influencer, we’d love to talk.
- Upvotes and Resteems are always appreciated. We promise to keep you updated!
Who are the individuals behind this project?
Hey tuck, thanks for your interest! We'll have a post about the team soon, but for now we're Brian - @justbc, Nate - @natedogg, Andrew aka "Drew Sharp" @adsbc, and Ben (in the signup queue). We're all massive sports fans and blockchain enthusiasts, and we see social as the most exciting application.
Brian here -- looks like you've got a SPL freeroll today, see you there!
This looks like a very interesting project! I'm a skilled marketer that would love to join the @sportsteem team. You can reach me on Steemit.chat with the same username I have here.
Hey Brendan.. Thanks for reaching out and the awesome post you made about the project! We'll be in touch soon. Let's get it this season 🏈
As you already know I give a few picks a day through a post to my fellow steemians. I also sell my picks. I do some web development on my free time, which there isnt much of right now too, though I am not professional by any means. I dont have a problem promoting @sportsteem but Need a lot more questions answered. I am interested in hearing more.
Hey nicnas, thanks! We're going to look out for your picks as well as any other 'cappers out here on Steemit, and definitely share more details of what we have in store. A lot of that will come in our development progress updates starting soon. Looking forward to answering your questions as well :)
Cool stuff! I'm trying to grow the NFL Steemit community so I upvote and resteem NFL content!
Thanks, itsyeboy! Looking forward to growing the Steem sports community right alongside you!
Sounds interesting. If you could, find me on steemit.chat (ats.david) - I'd like to talk to you about this project.
If you haven't seen any of my sports contests, you should check out my blog page. I started with the NFL and I've been running them since last September. I might be able to give you some insights into how things tend to work around here.
Hey David, thanks for reaching out! We will be in touch on steemit.chat. Your contests look like they have gotten a ton of traction, so we'd definitely appreciate your input.
I enjoyed your post. Good luck here on Steemit! Please consider checking out minnowsupportproject.com and @minnowsupport. It is a great community of individuals that will help you get started and can answer all of your questions.
Appreciate the tip, sepracore! Will definitely be touching base with @minnowsupport
Welcome @Sportsteem its good to see more people around. Have fun in this community. I wish you many followers and new friends :-) Cheers @chrisx
Thanks for the warm welcome, Chris! If you have any friends interested in sports, please let them know about what we're doing!
Sounds like an awesome idea. I can't wait to see how this goes!
welcome to the community, @Sportsteem !! Wish you much luck! Cheers! Follow me at @mekong
I was gonna start a weekly picks post for nfl games and I would also post my weekly gambles. I've built up my spreadsheet but if this helps its gonna ne awesome. I know I will still post my own content and hope to grow.
We'll be using our posts to promote quality analysis from users, so hopefully we can help you build a following! Just tag your posts with #sportsteem so we can find them.