Live Scoring

[M. Anderson]

I would like some direction on this if possible. I run a high school
football website and for next season I would like to have live scoring. Very
similar to what they have on nfl.com, which is called game stats live. I'm
sure it is java based, what it does is updates the scores and stats live and
the user doesn't have to do or refresh a thing. Anybody know of software or
what direction I should head in?

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,
M. Anderson

 

[clintonG]

Head to the bank and ask for a loan coach. Building a real time data service
cost real time money when no persons are involved to do the data entry. You
need an electronic scoreboard that can send data using Internet protocols
and you need an application on the server to capture and display it. That
takes some hefty hardware, some hefty connectivity and some hefty software
development.

There's actually a reasonable alternative using RSS 1.0 as the data
transport that can update a page using near real-time asynchronous
callbacks. Clear as mud heh This methodology requires sophisticated
software programming that once developed would at least allow you to run the
application on a typical web server to report near real-time scores but you
will still need someone to do data entry and press the send button in as
near real-time as possible.