BracketPress

BracketPress allows WordPress admins to run and manage a tournament bracket on their site.

While originally developed for NCAA's March Madness (College Basketball tournament), BracketPress is sport agnostic, being ideal for any type of sport league that ends via a bracketed stage.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• Manage participant teams
• Manage the bracket itself
• Manage conferences
• Manage tournament stages
• Run multiple brackets at the same time
• Easy to rebrand
• Extendable via add-ons
• PRO Version Features:
• Close integration with NCAAB's March Madness tournament
• Automatic score updates
• Brackets are automatically updated
• Automatic NCAA team bracket population
• Access to new add-ons
• Documentation and tutorials
• Get support directly from the developer

What is new in this release:

• Removed buggy positioning controls
• Added and fixed region labeling
• Corrected bugs causing region names to not reflect changes.
• Corrected bugs causing initial settings and configuration settings to not be loaded
• Fixed bug requiring permalink save after installing
• Fixed bug in final four comparison not returning correct previous match ID's

What is new in version 1.6.3:

• Fixed regression bug while trying to fix Final Four matches.

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• Reworked the labels and ability to change the location of the regions.
• Fixed JavaScript issues with older browsers related to final four selections.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• Added class to bracketpress shortcode for easier styling.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• Updated for 2013 region display order and final 4 matching.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• Fixed problem where randomization led to a unchangeable bracket due to user_id not being stored.

What is new in version 1.0.5:

• Added CSS for scoring: use selectors #bracket .match .won { } and #bracket .match .lost { } to change display
• Added CSS for final match: use selector .match .final_pick { } to change
• Fixed scoring problem. Brackets are now being scored correctly.
• Admin can allow Bracket Name and Bracket Description Editing
• Added randomize function to automatically fill in a random bracket
• Added a "combined score" section, to be used as a tie breaker if the
• added various filters and actions in order to easily integrate with Achievements, CubePoints and similiar plugins

What is new in version 1.0.4:

• Added bracketpress_display_name filter for munging team names.
• Now automatically creates pages needed upon activation.
• Added leaderboard and bracket display shortcode.

What is new in version 1.0.3:

• Critical update for PHP 5.2 users.
• Added Store.
• Minor cleanups.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.5 or higher