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for those interested, the source code is below. I didn't hard-code a single picture or statistic to make this -- they're all fetched dynamically (photos using a web crawler and AI to extract the faces, startlists from tfrrs + rtspt, statistics from World Athletics). So we can keep doing this for major meets going forwards, if there's interest -- in theory it will only take a few minutes to set up per meet.

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I added a "submissions" view that activates when you're done with your picks, so you can confirm they're submitted. Also, your picks are auto-saved to your computer as you fill them out, so you can start them any time and re-open the page to get back to them later. Suggestions welcome:

https://hpr.github.io/fantasy-dl/

bump because this is super cool. already submitted my picks. thanks so much for making this - hope you make it again for outdoors.

thanks! I tried to make the setup as automated as possible, so I plan on continuing to use it, perhaps with a combined leaderboard. none of the info is manually entered -- the program basically parses start lists (it can even parse PDFs for meets that release entries that way), and automatically searches Google to generate the profile pictures and other info. takes only about 10 minutes to generate the site after you give it the entries URL.

Thanks a lot for this. Great work!

reminder to get your picks in before the first events start on Friday!

I added indicators so you can make your team without having to click on each athlete's profile individually. Suggestions welcome!

https://hpr.github.io/fantasy-dl/

reminder to get your picks in before 6pm ET on Friday, when the women's events will start.

i added some features since the last post including a table view and live entries confirmation. i see some people created accounts but didn't submit picks, so please confirm you can see your name here and if not click "Save Picks" and then "Submit Picks"!

https://hpr.github.io/fantasy-dl/#/submissions

as of 24 hours before the deadline, here are all the running events ranked from least to most competitive, according to the picks so far:

Women's 5000 Meters: 96% of entries chose the same winner (no surprise)
Women's 3000 Meters: 96%
Men's 400 Meters: 92%
Women's 60 Meters: 88%
Women's 60 Hurdles: 85%
Women's 400 Meters: 85%
Women's 800 Meters: 77%
Men's 60 Meters: 75%
Women's 200 Meters: 65%
Men's 200 Meters: 63%
Men's Mile: 58%
Men's 60 Hurdles: 52%
Men's 3000 Meters: 52%
Women's Mile: 37%
Men's 800 Meters: 31%
Men's 5000 Meters: 25%

Congratulations to the top 3:

1. swaglord9000, 360pts

2. David, 356pts

3. Trent, 352pts

You can view the leaderboard and the detailed scoring breakdown for everyone, as well as the King of the Distance / Sprints leaderboards for the 100+ entries here:

https://hpr.github.io/fantasy-dl/#/leaderboard

It was a great meet, the top 3 will get emails to coordinate accepting their prizes. This was fun for me too, hoping to keep this up for the upcoming marathon majors and the outdoor season.