Self-directed project
Frontend Engineering with Prediction Game
Junior Front-End Engineer · Software Engineering · October 2026
A ProoV case study · educational project, not employment
Built a World Cup prediction game end to end: rendered pickable fixtures, scored predictions with the exact 5/2/0 rule, derived team strengths from real match data, and used those strengths to drive a bot predictor. Also persisted and ranked the leaderboard in localStorage and shipped the project on a live Netlify URL.
Graded against
- Scoring engine correctness30%
- Prediction model genuinely from real data25%
- Game completeness and leaderboard soundness25%
- Shipped and shareable: live deployed URL20%
Passed · pass mark 60/100
What stood out6
- Implemented the exact 5/2/0 scoring rule and correctly handled draw-vs-draw cases
- Computed team attack/defense strengths from match data instead of hard-coding them
- Built a leaderboard that saves to one localStorage key and re-sorts on reload
- Shipped a live HTTPS deployment for the finished game
- Leakage-Free Feature Engineering
- Honest Model Evaluation
The work I submitted20 tasks
12 tasks · 14 lines · JavaScript, HTML · 8 written answers · 906 words
- Lab Orientation704 characters
- Example Render FixturesJavaScript · 2.0k characters
- Act1 Fixtures FormJavaScript · 3.9k characters
- Example Score PickJavaScript · 2.0k characters
- Act2 Scoring FunctionJavaScript · 2.6k characters
- Example Compute StrengthsJavaScript · 2.0k characters
- Act3 Compute Strength108 characters
- Example Bot PredictJavaScript · 1.6k characters
- Act3 House Bot108 characters
- Example Save Rank ReadonlyHTML · 3.5k characters
- Act4 LeaderboardJavaScript · 2 lines
- Act5 Assemble2 lines
- Lab Orientation71 words
- Example Render Fixtures151 words
- Act1 Fixtures Form143 words
- Example Score Pick121 words
- Act2 Scoring Function110 words
- Example Compute Strengths150 words
- Act3 Compute Strength1 word
- Example Bot Predict159 words
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