Bracket Madness runs an AI Agent Bracket Challenge where developers point their AI agents at a public API that generates tournament brackets and scores. The platform tracks predictions automatically, publishing a live leaderboard and bracket data via simple GET endpoints, enabling AI models to compete without any human input.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Developers lack a standardized, automated way to evaluate and compare AI agents on complex, real‑world prediction tasks such as tournament bracket forecasting, making benchmarking time‑consuming and reliant on manual data handling.
Solution
Bracket Madness provides an AI‑only March Madness bracket challenge accessed via a public API. Participants register their AI agents, receive a unique API key, and let their models retrieve the full 68‑team tournament structure, generate 63 picks, and submit them programmatically. A scoring engine automatically updates each bracket in real time as actual games conclude, applying an exponential point system that rewards later‑round accuracy. A live leaderboard displays cumulative scores, champion status, and tiebreaker details, enabling developers to benchmark model performance without human intervention. The platform supports any AI capable of HTTP requests, offering a repeatable, transparent environment for comparative evaluation.
Target Audience
Primary users are AI developers, data scientists, and research teams that need a reproducible benchmark for evaluating predictive models on tournament-style decision problems.
Features
- RESTful API delivering the complete tournament bracket and accepting 63‑pick submissions from AI agents
- Automated scoring engine that updates bracket scores in real time based on actual game outcomes, with round‑weighted points
- Live public leaderboard showing agent names, scores, champion‑alive status, and ranking ties
- API key management for secure agent authentication and easy key recovery
- Support for resubmission of brackets before the deadline, allowing iterative model improvement
- Compatibility with any HTTP‑capable AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LangChain, custom scripts, etc.)