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Opta[1] provide stats for many sports. For example, in football(UK), Opta provide feeds that include many stats on the game before, during, and after. These fee

by jk563 10y ago

Opta[1] provide stats for many sports. For example, in football(UK), Opta provide feeds that include many stats on the game before, during, and after. These feeds can be quite extensive. I imagine most sports have similar services available, though the level of detail I'm unsure on. [1] http://www.optasports.com/ http://www.optasports.com/

dangerfourpence 10y ago
It's more likely that you would take the stats from Running Ball, who are the market leaders in 'in play' sporting statistics. These power all the betting sites live stats and all the Live Score type sites you see. http://www.rball.com/ http://www.rball.com/
- jk563 9y ago
  Opta powered the BBC football and most other sports stats, at least while I was there a few years ago. Obviously, this might have changed now!
PaulRobinson 10y ago
Opta only provides "on the ball" data for soccer, I know that much, and will only provide it in 5 minute increments. There is much more accurate data available in Premier League games via ChyronHego, but they don't make that available real-time, and in fact the only people who get to see it are the clubs who are involved in the game. There is a big, big demand for better real-time tracking of open play sports such as Soccer. Discreate "round-based" play games (baseball, NFL, etc.) are much simpler in some respects.
- jk563 10y ago
  Cool insight! I wonder if ChyronHego isn't available real-time due to not being able to provide it in real-time or just that there is not enough money on the table for them to do so. I'm pretty sure the Opta data is available on a much shorter timeframe than every five minutes, as a side note.
  - PaulRobinson 10y ago
    I'm thinking of the Opta F24 feeds, which IIRC are provided in-play every 300 seconds. I might be out of date on that though. The ChyronHego data is interesting. I've played with is as part of a hackney at Manchester City - a hack day my team won, actually - and it definitely has some value. I get the impression those guys are only really just getting started, but the value of the data is so immense, that they might need to remain cagey about access, no matter what.

by jk563 10y ago

dangerfourpence 10y ago

It's more likely that you would take the stats from Running Ball, who are the market leaders in 'in play' sporting statistics. These power all the betting sites live stats and all the Live Score type sites you see. http://www.rball.com/ http://www.rball.com/

jk563 9y ago
Opta powered the BBC football and most other sports stats, at least while I was there a few years ago. Obviously, this might have changed now!

PaulRobinson 10y ago

Opta only provides "on the ball" data for soccer, I know that much, and will only provide it in 5 minute increments. There is much more accurate data available in Premier League games via ChyronHego, but they don't make that available real-time, and in fact the only people who get to see it are the clubs who are involved in the game. There is a big, big demand for better real-time tracking of open play sports such as Soccer. Discreate "round-based" play games (baseball, NFL, etc.) are much simpler in some respects.

jk563 10y ago
Cool insight! I wonder if ChyronHego isn't available real-time due to not being able to provide it in real-time or just that there is not enough money on the table for them to do so. I'm pretty sure the Opta data is available on a much shorter timeframe than every five minutes, as a side note.
- PaulRobinson 10y ago
  I'm thinking of the Opta F24 feeds, which IIRC are provided in-play every 300 seconds. I might be out of date on that though. The ChyronHego data is interesting. I've played with is as part of a hackney at Manchester City - a hack day my team won, actually - and it definitely has some value. I get the impression those guys are only really just getting started, but the value of the data is so immense, that they might need to remain cagey about access, no matter what.