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34 articles · updated July 30, 2026

Live Scores

Why some sports are easy to score live and others resist it

Sports built from discrete, officially recorded events convert cleanly into a live feed, while continuous sports force somebody to invent boundaries that the game itself never draws.

Priya Patel··3 min read

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Event data and tracking data answer different questions

One records what happened to the ball and the other records where everybody was, and confusing the two produces analysis that sounds precise while resting on the wrong foundation.

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What an in-play win probability is actually modelling

The number moving beside a live match is not a measurement of who is playing better, but the output of a model estimating how often similar situations have historically resolved each way.

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Why two live data feeds disagree about the same match

Providers watching identical action publish different numbers because they define events differently, resolve ambiguity differently and correct at different moments in the pipeline.

Elena Rostova··3 min read

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How a live score becomes a number on your screen

A scoreline looks like a direct observation of a match, when it is actually the output of a chain of human input, encoding, distribution and correction that each add their own delay.

Vikram Singh··3 min read