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MSTW Bracket Builder

by Mark O'Donnell · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 410+ installs across the portfolio →

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Builds and manages tournament brackets. Displays tournament brackets (knockout rounds), and tables of games (fixtures).

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
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57 Health · C
Maintenance 39/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

57 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

90+

Active installs

≈97 estimated

9.4K

Total downloads

since 2016

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+81%

78

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

71 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 48/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 561 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+81% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

78

now · peak 324

7830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

MSTW Bracket Builder · #17129 you Simple Tournament Br · #10664 AnWP Sports Leagues · #12735 Tournamatch · #13773

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

867per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

1.5y ago

latest release · v1.1

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 1.5y ago1.4 · 1.5y ago1.3 · 1.8y ago1.2 · 5.1y ago1.0 · 9.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 65% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 65%
v1.2 18%
v1.3 17%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
90–100 ≈97

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2018-09-02 · 1,387 observations

90Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
1.5y ago
Added
2016-04-18 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.4.2
Tested up to
6.7.7
Requires PHP
5.6
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ stokeymad
    8.7y ago

    Unable to add teams to some tournaments, on the ones that you can, when you update the tournament brackets, it overwrites all games with the game 1 information. Too many errors in log to make it worthwhile figuring out the issues.

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  2. ★★★★★ Mark O'Donnell
    10.4y ago

    Works for me! (WP 4.5, PHP 5.5, Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve themes) Basic, but many more cool features to follow.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Spanish (Mexico) 30%
German 5%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-06 100+ → 90+ down

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