Is there someone in the stadium watching the game and updating it super fast? I’ll often get alerts before it happens on TV. They have so much information on each play and I want to know how they get it all.
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It’s pretty much just people being paid to watch the game and record everything that happens.
Sports statistics are pretty big business. Companies that do this sell their data to TV networks, oddsmakers and even the teams themselves, each with their own uses for the data. Networks like having statistics and odd facts about particular matches, sportsbooks use them to set odds for upcoming matches and teams analyze the data of their players and teams performance and those of other teams to get whatever competitive advantage they can.
It is literally that, I have a friend who used to do that for the Score in Toronto, then other companies buy those feeds.
You have it spot on – someone is sitting watching the game and writing updates as they happen and sending them out.
Think of someone sitting writing updates on a Facebook or WhatsApp group message.
The reason these will update differently from things like a TV broadcast are down to the delays in some broadcast systems – the processing and transmission of the broadcast can take slightly longer using some systems than others, so one signal may take a few seconds longer to appear. Some broadcasts also use a purposeful delay to allow the network some control (the ability to preview and stop a broadcast if needed) or to add in subtitles or other information.
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