Buzzr blog
The sports social notebook.
Quick reads on Scroll, Buzzr Score, crews, dashboards, leagues, and tracking your slips.
Your group chat is a leaderboard now: the case for Crews
Your group chat already keeps score. It just does it badly. Crews turn your friend group into a season-long competition with brackets and standings.
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Scroll to rate: why the sports feed needs a verdict
The scoreboard tells you who won. Buzzr tells you whether the game was worth your night, then turns that signal into a social feed.
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Shipping Buzzr Bets: how we OCR'd every PrizePicks and Underdog slip
A deep dive into the engineering behind Buzzr's DFS tracker, Claude Vision OCR, linkage v2, scoreboard-direct settlement, and the auto-grading pipeline shipping across NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL.
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Building Buzzr: the AI-native sports social app
How Buzzr turned live games, AI context, dashboards, friends, leagues, and DFS slip tracking into one sports social product.
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What makes a 9.8: how the Buzzr Score works
Not a win probability. Not a power rating. A fan-facing 1–10 score built from three dimensions: chaos, energy, drama. Here's the methodology.
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Esports isn’t eating traditional sports. It’s teaching them how to watch.
A $640M audience, Saudi’s $60M Esports World Cup, and Olympic recognition. The real story isn’t cannibalization , it’s format transfer.
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Betting fatigue: the sportsbook boom is starting to break
$140B in annual handle, calls to problem-gambling helplines up 500%, and a federal bill on the table. Inside the cultural backlash to legal sports betting.
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How the group chat ate the sports bar: the rise of second-screen sports
85% of sports viewers now use a second screen. The group chat, not the living room, is where the game actually happens. Inside the shift.
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