Initial Situation
A few weeks ago, we received an inquiry from Interzero, a leading circular economy company committed to making raw material cycles more efficient and promoting a resource-saving circular economy. Interzero is the main sponsor of ALBA BERLIN, one of Germany's top basketball teams, and was looking for an internal prediction game for employees that could ideally be integrated into the existing SharePoint and Teams environment. Max Beer, Marketing Manager Sponsoring and Events at Interzero, came across our solution vGoal, a prediction game for SharePoint and Teams. We developed vGoal as an HR tool for team building, enabling company employees to easily predict the results of European Championship and World Cup soccer matches via an application. 
Max Beer, Marketing Manager Sponsoring & Events at Interzero: “In VIALUTIONS, we have found a partner who was able to implement our specific request: an internal prediction game via Microsoft Teams. As the main sponsor of ALBA BERLIN, the prediction game allows us to involve our employees in the partnership. We are therefore delighted to be able to follow an exciting season on and off the court as a company.”
Challenge
The question now arose as to whether we could adapt our soccer prediction game for Interzero so that it could be used to predict the results of ALBA BERLIN's games in the Basketball Bundesliga. We were very keen to implement the project, but first had to figure out what adjustments this would require on the technical side. The structures of soccer and basketball differ greatly, not only—obviously—in terms of the sport itself. For us, the challenges were as follows: In a soccer European Championship or World Cup, there are first group stages, which then lead to knockout rounds. In basketball, there are the first and second half of the Bundesliga season. This meant that the basic structure of the prediction game had to be adapted first. In the original vGoal, there were three ways to score points: if the game result was predicted correctly, if the correct goal difference was predicted, or if at least the trend was correct. In basketball, simply because of the high number of baskets, it makes no sense to predict a specific result. In other words, it is very unlikely to correctly predict the final score. Scoring the correct “goal difference” also makes little sense here.
Implementation
Together with Interzero, we therefore decided to simplify the structure of the application so that users could only bet on a win or a loss. We were able to use the basic structure of vGoal, but had to make some changes to the logic. In addition, some design adjustments were requested and implemented. The addition of the Euroleague was also discussed, but this request was initially put on hold due to time constraints.