Leaderboards

Starting in 2018, Golden Nugget began running a yearly wagering race. The race was divided into monthly segments, each with its own prize pool. At the beginning of the following new year the winners would be crowned. A critical piece of the race was the ability for players to track their points and progress. Our base product lacked the functionality to add leaderboards, so I worked with our business analyst to build a custom leaderboard component that could be embedded into a web page. It has the functionality to take the users’ ID and display their personal rankings, it has a search function, could display both the leaderboard results and the prize table within the same component. Multiple leaderboards were supported on the same component. Depending on the time frame, this component usually only needed to accommodate a leader board for monthly and yearly races, but the same component was repurposed later to use more. The benefit of this was being able to display a large amount of information in a small space. On the back-end we were able to build scripts that could update the leaderboard automatically. This was a major advantage over basic HTML tables that would have to be updated manually.