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MockingBoard

A live platform for NFL Draft enthusiasts that has grown into a family of four sites — the draft platform, fantasy football, a stats workbench, and a research publication — with no ads or gambling on any of them. Its standout is a Discord bot that runs full mock drafts natively in a server.

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  • NFL
  • product
  • Discord bot
  • TypeScript
  • Firebase

MockingBoard is mine, and it's live. What started as a Discord bot is now four sites on one platform, built for people who treat the NFL Draft as a year-round craft and free of the ads and gambling most of that space runs on. The draft site at mockingboard.app is the anchor: mock drafts solo or with friends, big boards, community scouting reports, and prediction leaderboards scored against the real draft.

The best part is still the Discord bot. It runs a full mock draft natively inside a Discord server — up to all 32 teams, some controlled by friends and the rest by CPU, with quick-pick buttons, position filters, a pick timer, and trades priced off the Rich Hill trade-value chart. Nobody leaves the chat, and draft history saves back to Firestore.

The other three sites carry the same no-ads promise. MockingBoard Fantasy is live, with its first season kicking off September 2026. MockingBoard Stats is live too: a football analytics workbench that runs DuckDB in the browser over play-by-play data back to 1999, with a chart builder, curated statistical tests, and Songbird answering plain-English questions by writing real SQL you can inspect — never a guessed number. MockingBoard Research comes next, a home for original, data-backed findings where no metric gets promoted without an out-of-sample backtest.

Under all of it is one TypeScript monorepo: the Next.js apps and the bot share a core package on Firestore and Firebase Auth, deployed on Firebase App Hosting with Cloud Run jobs handling data ingest. One Pro subscription covers every MockingBoard app.