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1. Sports betting 2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results. You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the game
by AlexAMEEE 9y ago
1. Sports betting
2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results.
You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the games and would press buttons in order to inform you about results so you could parse them and deliver live results which eventually would become a live API.
But as you can see, there are people involved in this, who watch all those games, if you can manage to automate this, without requiring too many people, you are a rich man.
Let's put in that way, almost everyone consumes their API if they are offline, we are offline.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
- omarchowdhury 9y agoSeems like something that can be crowdsourced cheaply since so many people are watching the sports shows for free anyway.
- legolas2412 9y agoWell, as there are comment threads on reddit and streaming websites, you just do some simple NLP.
- AlexAMEEE 9y agoThey are also betting and why shouldn't they publish results that would let them win even if that's not the correct result ? One could argue that the masses would always return the correct score but imagine 50 people debating about sports, there are 50 opinions and the truth somewhere in between. And therefore those people also called 'scouts' must be trained in order to accomplish the job.
- jpindar 9y agoAt least some leagues already provide live feeds of scores and important plays. During NFL games I hang out on a certain irc channel and there's a bot that posts them.