F1

From Group Chat to App: How Going Digital Unlocked Better Fantasy Stats

Open Wheelers the app started life as a text thread. A group of friends with a love of Formula 1 just wanted a fun alternative to complex fantasy games with drafted teams, waivers, etc. So we played a manual game within a text thread, a gentleman’s agreement to get your picks in before the lights go out, and yours truly would manually tally results after each race, post the updated standings, and we’d argue about who was actually winning. It worked well enough for years. And it was completely holding the game back.