Roadmap & Release Notes

Roadmap

Short-term Goals

  • Liga MX, MLS, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Copa del Rey & women's football pools
  • Smack Talk Phase 2 — reactions + post-game "receipts" (✅ winners / 💀 losers)
  • Lopsided-pool nudge — "back the underdog to clap back"
  • Data freshness alarms — flag a league whose fixtures stop arriving, instead of finding out weeks later
  • Faucet stats + abuse monitoring
  • Chat moderation tuning (report → auto-hide)

Mid-term Goals

  • College Football (CFB) pools
  • More international leagues — by community demand
  • Cross-pool profiles & win/loss reputation
  • Admin & moderation dashboard
  • Richer leaderboards and head-to-head stats

Long-term Development

  • Analytics & monitoring dashboard
  • Mobile app / PWA support
  • Accessibility pass (ARIA labels, keyboard navigation)
  • Deeper Banano-native fun — reactions, badges, seasonal events
  • Additional sports & leagues, driven by community demand

Release Notes

09/11/2026, v5.2 — Football's back, both kinds 🏈⚽

  • 🏈 NFL 2026/27 is live: Week 1 pools are open, with every game carrying odds from kickoff. The season picker now follows the calendar on its own, so a new season shows up the day it starts instead of waiting on us.
  • ⚽ Premier League & La Liga are back: Both 2026/27 seasons are flowing again — all 380 fixtures apiece. ESPN quietly changed how it files domestic seasons over the summer and our fixture feed had been coming back empty since July. Fixed, and hardened so either filing works.
  • 📊 Team records on every pick: Each team now shows its season record next to the name — Liverpool (1-2-0) — in quiet type beside the win probability, so you can see form at a glance without it shouting.
  • 🍌 Faucet refilled and retuned: Back open with a fresh top-up. Claims are now 1.9 BAN (0.42 for brand-new wallets — back a team in any pool and your next claim is the full amount), capped at 200 BAN a day. It also tells you honestly when it has run dry, instead of letting a claim fail silently.
  • 🎯 Pools sized for the regular season: House seeding was still set for playoff runs, where a handful of games a week justify going deep. Dialled back across NFL, NBA and NHL now that the schedule is dense again — the same pools, spread across a lot more games.
  • 🏆 World Cup 2026 wrapped: Every match settled and paid out. The tournament has retired from the live board, but all of it — history, payouts and leaderboards — is still there to browse.

06/08/2026, v5.1 — World Cup, Faucet & Smack Talk 🏆

  • 🏆 FIFA World Cup 2026: All 104 matches — group stage through the final — live and auto-updating, with deep pool seeding so there's real action to back from kickoff.
  • 🍌 Free BAN Faucet: New here? Grab a little free play-BAN to get in on a pool. Cloudflare-protected, one claim per wallet per day, and it pre-fills the address you've already verified.
  • 💬 Smack Talk: Per-game trash talk with bet-aware badges (your pick + stake), BNS names, report → auto-hide moderation, and an evasion-proof filter that keeps the banter salty but the slurs out.
  • ⚡ Auto-deposit detection: The Send-BAN page now spots your deposit automatically and advances on its own — the manual "BAN SENT!" button stays as a fallback. Double-credit-proofed at the database level.
  • 🏈 NFL standardized: NFL moved onto the same league / season / round data model as every other sport — one clean schema across the board.
  • Bigger pools: Deeper house seeds on marquee and playoff games for snappier, more rewarding payouts.

06/06/2026, v5.0 — A fresh new look ✨

  • v5 redesign: A clean navy-and-banana-gold look, the Inter typeface, polished game cards, and a dark mode that actually looks good — across the welcome, pools, stats, history, and payouts pages.
  • Rebuilt leaderboards: Chart.js-powered stats (Total Bet vs. Profit, plus a "Whale Watch") with sortable, searchable tables.
  • Odds your way: Toggle American / Fractional / Decimal / Implied odds, with live in-game score updates on every pool.
  • Consistent nav: Unified navy + gold navigation with branding on every page, and a one-tap dark-mode toggle.

11/30/2025, v4.2

  • Localized Timezone Display: Game dates and times now display in the user's local timezone instead of hardcoded ET, with timezone abbreviation shown
  • Toast Notifications: Replaced all alert() dialogs with modern toast notifications that appear in the top-right corner, with support for success, error, warning, and info types
  • Improved Game Visibility: Added full team names above each game box for easier identification
  • Dropdown Styling: Rounded edges and improved styling for Season, Status, Teams, and other dropdown selects with better readability in both light and dark modes

11/16/2025, v4.1

  • Mobile Compatibility: Comprehensive mobile responsiveness improvements across all pages, including fixed button overlap issues in modals, responsive form layouts, and touch-friendly button sizes
  • Added Feedback & Bug Reports page for easy user feedback submission
  • Improved dark mode styling for info cards and form elements

11/09/2025, v4.0

  • Major UI/UX overhaul with modern design and improved dark mode
  • Configuration-driven architecture for easier sport/league additions
  • Improved game organization with day-based visual grouping
  • Removed deprecated sports (CWC, RWC, MLB)
  • Fixed week dropdown filtering to show only relevant weeks for selected season
  • Improved Plotly graphs with dark mode support
  • Security & Reliability: Fixed balance check edge case, improved partial pool activation handling, added lock file timeout/cleanup, fixed rounding edge cases for draw seeds
  • Added Terms of Service page for legal clarity

01/10/2025, v3.4

  • Added La Liga, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League pools
  • Added support for 24/25 NFL Playoffs

12/15/2024, v3.3

09/30/2024, v3.2

  • Added Premier League pools
  • Various bug fixes around refresh/payout executors

09/14/2024, v3.1

  • Enforced Pool Activation functionality.
  • Added 1.5% house fee for future automatic pool seeding.

09/07/2024, v3.0

  • Added 2024/25 NFL
  • Upgraded backend libraries & databases. Integrated CI/CD.

04/20/2024, v2.6

  • Added NHL Playoffs
  • Added Team Filter

04/16/2024, v2.5

  • Added NBA Playoffs
  • NHL Playoffs Skeleton

10/14/2023, v2.4

  • Added Status Filter
  • Misc bug fixes around deposit confirmations

10/06/2023, v2.3

  • Added Cricket World Cup
  • Added MLB Playoffs

09/24/2023, v2.2

  • Added game status for when scores are refreshed during the match
  • Added donations capability
  • Payout Engine has been rebuilt and now sends hourly

09/12/2023, v2.1

  • Finished refactor of the backend to add new sports more systematically
  • Added Rugby World Cup fixtures to pools
  • Added Rugby World Cup data refresh and payment automation
  • Added Fractional and Decimal Odds representation

09/03/2023, v2.0

  • Removed all pools that scaled poorly and added bloat (for now)
  • Refactored the entire backend and database
  • Migrated 2022 NFL pools over to new infrastructure
  • Added "Season" as a valid filter and PK to the database and supplemental pages
  • Added PAYOUT AUTOMATION (number 1 request). Payments will be sent at 12pm UTC daily
  • Added Game Metadata Refresh AUTOMATION (scores, schedule changes, etc). Refreshed on the hour daily
  • Added Current Week Selection AUTOMATION. Current Active Week will be automatically selected when you visit the pools
  • Added visualizations to the leaderboards
  • Removed FiveThirtyEight as a data vendor since they froze their sports coverage
  • Reimbursed all deposits placed into the pools since last major release

02/12/2023, v1.10

  • Added UEFA Championship 2022/23 Winner Pools

01/19/2023, v1.9

  • Added Super Bowl 2022/23 Winner Pools

01/02/2023, v1.8

  • Added Premier League 2022/23 Match Pools
  • Refactored the NFL Pools to use the ESPN API
  • Cleaned up closed pools and website organization

12/07/2022, v1.7

  • Added leaderboards for World Cup & NFL
  • Refactored the payouts to include more metadata for aggregate stats
  • Created initial scripts to help automate payout aggregation and the sending of BAN

11/21/2022, v1.6

  • Added ability to filter by Group to Match pool
  • Changed sort of pools so started games/closed pools are moved to the bottom

11/18/2022, v1.5

  • Added World Cup 2022 Match Pools
  • Added World Cup 2022 Match Deposit History
  • Fixed bug for dark mode text color on Team/Group pools

11/13/2022, v1.4

  • Added World Cup 2022 Team & Group Pools
  • Added World Cup 2022 Team & Group Deposit History

10/18/2022, v1.3

  • Added MLB 2022 Playoff Game Pools
  • Added MLB 2022 Playoff Game Deposit History

10/9/2022, v1.2

  • Added MLB 2022 World Series Team Pools
  • Added MLB 2022 World Series Team Deposit History

10/07/2022, v1.1

  • Added countdown timer per game
  • Initial mobile compatibility
  • Dark mode on history/payouts pages!

10/06/2022, v1.0

  • Migrate to a pro hosting account with custom domain
  • Incorporated Vegas Odds from ESPN/Caesar's Sportsbook for all NFL Games
  • Recommender for imbalanced pools
  • Raised limit to 1,000 BAN per deposit
  • Cosmetics to the home page
  • Clean up History/Payments columns
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