From the venue to your screen: how live scores reach Maxivaleur
A goal is scored, and a few seconds later the board updates. This is the chain behind that update, where delays come from and what we do when the data is wrong.
Illustration: Maxivaleur design team.
Maxivaleur does not collect scores by copying other websites. Live data is meant to come from a single commercially licensed sports-data provider under contract, and the provider's attribution sits on our data sources page.
The chain
- Collection. The provider's scouts or official data partners log events at the venue or from the official broadcast: goals, cards, substitutions, period changes.
- Distribution. Those events are pushed to subscribers as a stream.
- Display. Our pages keep one open connection to that stream (server-sent events) and update the affected rows in place. The page never reloads.
Where delays come from
Broadcast pictures are often several seconds behind the stadium. A data scout at the venue can be ahead of your television, which is why a score sometimes changes on screen before you see the goal. Occasional delays the other way happen when an event is held for review.
When the data is wrong
Scouts make mistakes — a goal credited to the wrong player, a card shown to the wrong number. The provider corrects these, and our board follows the correction. If a correction changes a published article, the Standards Desk adds a dated note under the article and logs it on the corrections page.
Where we are today
Until the provider stream is switched on, the Live Desk enters results, tables and fixtures from official competition sources after each round, and every board shows the date it was last brought up to date. Minute-by-minute movement arrives with the stream.
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