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Why is VAR connected to the internet? Are they trying to gather data on offside players customers to improve recommedations?
by iammrpayments 1y ago
Why is VAR connected to the internet? Are they trying to gather data on offside players customers to improve recommedations?
- ashikns 1y agoI worked in a similar system. The raw data from the field first goes to a cloud hosted event queue of some sort, then a database, then back to whatever app/screen on field. The data doesn't just power on-field displays. There's a lot of online websites, etc that needs to pull data from an api.
- afavour 1y agoI wouldn't be at all surprised if people pay for API access to the data. I've worked with live sports data before, it's a very profitable industry to be in when you're the one selling the data. Of course in a sane world you'd have an internal fallback for when cloud connectivity fails but I'm sure someone looked at the cost and said "eh, what's the worst that could happen?"