ADK Synergy World Cup 2026 predictions

A score prediction game built for ADK Synergy, the recreation club of the ADK Group. Staff predict the scoreline of every World Cup 2026 match, earn points for exact scores and correct outcomes, and watch a live leaderboard sort itself out over the length of the tournament.

It runs on Laravel with a React front end delivered through Inertia.js — the same stack as the hospital's queue management system, which meant the scoring engine and the admin side could be built quickly and the interesting time could go into the part people actually see.

Most of the design work went into the leaderboard, because that is the product. A prediction game is only fun if standings feel alive and the scoring is legible: an exact scoreline should obviously be worth more than merely calling the winner, and you should be able to tell at a glance why you are third rather than second. Matches, predictions and points all resolve on a fixed set of rules so the table can be recomputed rather than trusted.

It is a lighter brief than the clinical systems I usually work on, and a good reminder that internal tools do not have to look internal. This one had to survive being used by colleagues who would absolutely tell me if their points were wrong.