App has seriously taken a turn for the worst
This app used to be a 5 star, best out of the tournament pick apps. It was the cleanest and most efficient way to preview the matchups, see the actual results vs your picks, and join and manage your groups.
All of these things are now significantly more difficult/less usable. The matchups used to display both teams at once, now you have to click between them to read the info. It’s now next to impossible to view your picks and your progression of teams through the tournament on the mobile app than it was last year. It’s also much more difficult to manage your brackets and what you’re joining groups with. Additionally, the “how far did other people have this team in the group” option wasn’t even ready until the second weekend.
A really disappointing iteration of the app that I hope they improve upon next year.
All of these things are now significantly more difficult/less usable. The matchups used to display both teams at once, now you have to click between them to read the info. It’s now next to impossible to view your picks and your progression of teams through the tournament on the mobile app than it was last year. It’s also much more difficult to manage your brackets and what you’re joining groups with. Additionally, the “how far did other people have this team in the group” option wasn’t even ready until the second weekend.
A really disappointing iteration of the app that I hope they improve upon next year.
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Miss seeing how far people had teams going from the bracket cast view
Props to ESPN for correcting the complaint I had. They added into bracket cast how far a team is going in your bracket when you click on a game. Life saver!!
Previous feedback: In the old app layout, you could click on a game and see what you or a member of your group picked AND it would show how far a given bracket had that team going. Is a game outcome going to affect my sweet 16? my final 4? only the round of 32? Now, I have to individually go into every single bracket — my own brackets or my competitors within my group — to answer those questions. That is a waste of time. You’re telling my the “what”, but what about the “so what”? Impacts, people! We care about impacts! I have money and a reputation on the line! Otherwise, app is great. Thank you for your time.
Previous feedback: In the old app layout, you could click on a game and see what you or a member of your group picked AND it would show how far a given bracket had that team going. Is a game outcome going to affect my sweet 16? my final 4? only the round of 32? Now, I have to individually go into every single bracket — my own brackets or my competitors within my group — to answer those questions. That is a waste of time. You’re telling my the “what”, but what about the “so what”? Impacts, people! We care about impacts! I have money and a reputation on the line! Otherwise, app is great. Thank you for your time.
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UX is worse now
The user experience for being able to view information about the group bracket is not sufficient. There is no way to adequately compare between different brackets in a group. There used to be ways to see information such as how a loss would impact the total potential score. Instead there are many screens that don’t matter, like “Celebrity” brackets and a “Forecast” screen that doesn’t even show anything until sweet 16. There are some obvious ways to improve UX that are missing. For example in the Bracketcast page, If I click on my bracket, there is no way to directly go to see the full bracket. That seems obvious. There are no ways to compare between different people on how that loss will impact their bracket. That would be an easy addition to the UI. There is no way to see who each person picked for a specific game outside of the current round games shown in Bracketcast.
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Disappointing update
This used to be a great app, but the developers seemed to have gotten rid of some very helpful features. For instance, previously in the bracketcast tab, all at once you could see who you had picked for the game, how far you had them going, and how the result affected your point total. Now all it shows you is who you have winning. You have to scroll and swipe through each bracket to see how far that team is going, and no data is available for point effects. Also, they used to cross out the team in your bracket if they lost like in a paper bracket, but now they have some tiny writing that says what you picked, and then a big logo with the result. Really confusing. I used to check the app constantly during March madness, but now I find myself doing this far, far less because it’s so much more difficult to find the info i’m looking for. Really hope this app will reconsider going back to these functions.
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The Bracketcast update has made it practically unusable
The bracketcast on previous versions of the app would show how far each person in a group had the winning team from each game going. So if one team lost you could tell which people in your group had them going the farthest and how many points that lost cost them towards there potential total. The current version only tells you if the person had them winning or losing. No impact of the loss whatsoever. So if you wanted that info you’d have to go into everyone’s bracket and manually see how far they had them.
On top of that, they increased the size of the text/widget for each person in your group and you can only see 3 to 4 teams at once. The previous versions you could see 10ish teams at once. I haven’t found any updates that actually improve the app at all. In fact the only updates with new functionality are ice cube and fire emojis to tell you if a team hasn’t gotten a lot of picks right or if they have. It’s a head scratcher for why they chose this direction.
On top of that, they increased the size of the text/widget for each person in your group and you can only see 3 to 4 teams at once. The previous versions you could see 10ish teams at once. I haven’t found any updates that actually improve the app at all. In fact the only updates with new functionality are ice cube and fire emojis to tell you if a team hasn’t gotten a lot of picks right or if they have. It’s a head scratcher for why they chose this direction.
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Terrible update
2024 has the worst update they’ve ever done. Very difficult to compare to other people in your group.
Devs/Product Don’t Use the App
Recent changes have worsened the experience - both in app and in a browser, everything is worse, less user-friendly behavior.
Why do I have to login every time I pull up the app on my phone? Brackets used to update quickly and now take ages. Creating new brackets from existing brackets is an exercise in frustration since the app automatically jumps to the end after each pick once all picks are entered - which they are when you’re using a previously filled bracket. Clearly no one working on this actually uses it.
While the app is a better experience than the website, because the website is outright broken and scroll-heavy, you shouldn’t be competing against yourself. What a terrible time to unveil poorly planned workflows because I have time to look at the other options.m and forget this one.
Why do I have to login every time I pull up the app on my phone? Brackets used to update quickly and now take ages. Creating new brackets from existing brackets is an exercise in frustration since the app automatically jumps to the end after each pick once all picks are entered - which they are when you’re using a previously filled bracket. Clearly no one working on this actually uses it.
While the app is a better experience than the website, because the website is outright broken and scroll-heavy, you shouldn’t be competing against yourself. What a terrible time to unveil poorly planned workflows because I have time to look at the other options.m and forget this one.
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Seems to be falling behind
Used to be the best app for March Madness. UI has fallen behind, made some negative changes. My friends and I have switched to another provider, I’d recommend trying others out as well, unfortunately no longer the leader.
Why was the app changed
Used this app many years and really dislike it this year, first off it constantly logs me out like there is sensitive info in this app…it’s a Bracket app not a medical app. Also it seemed a lot of people had issues joining groups correctly so would have to resend links. Lastly I hate the bracket cast or whatever bc first off every time I have to re-sign in and go to that part it gives me a walk through which I don’t need, but also I liked in past seasons it would tell you how far people had certain teams going in the tourney and how many possible points they would be down if their picked team lost. Now it’s like a mystery until the game is completed which is annoying and makes it more difficult to know if I can really trash talk a friend for putting a team on the brink of losing all the way to the final four.
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Used to be a game changer
Honestly, this is one of the worst updates I’ve ever seen. The more I use it, the more frustrated I become.
Why would you take out essential functionality and make things more difficult for the user? When I am in bracket cast and I see the another bracket has picked the game differently than me, why (WHY?) do I have to leave bracket cast, go back into my group, find their bracket, and select it. Why in god’s name can I not just select their bracket from bracket cast?
And why can’t I zoom out on their bracket? In mine, I can zoom out to see the all of my selections. I have to scroll through their selections, round by round, to see their picks. Why can’t I have the zoomed out view on theirs?
Plus, submitting a bracket in a group is busted. All of my groups defaulted to the same bracket. Why would you have the player create a bracket outside of the group and then choose to import? Just let me create the bracket within the group. I don’t need to see how I compare to President Biden or Stephen A Smith. I don’t care.
This use to be the best way to track/watch March Madness and it’s almost unusable after this update.
Why would you take out essential functionality and make things more difficult for the user? When I am in bracket cast and I see the another bracket has picked the game differently than me, why (WHY?) do I have to leave bracket cast, go back into my group, find their bracket, and select it. Why in god’s name can I not just select their bracket from bracket cast?
And why can’t I zoom out on their bracket? In mine, I can zoom out to see the all of my selections. I have to scroll through their selections, round by round, to see their picks. Why can’t I have the zoomed out view on theirs?
Plus, submitting a bracket in a group is busted. All of my groups defaulted to the same bracket. Why would you have the player create a bracket outside of the group and then choose to import? Just let me create the bracket within the group. I don’t need to see how I compare to President Biden or Stephen A Smith. I don’t care.
This use to be the best way to track/watch March Madness and it’s almost unusable after this update.
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