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Displaying Live Scores

I am building a wordpress website for a sports team.

How do I display live scores on the site? The scores need to be updating themselves (automatically).

They initially wanted us (the designers and developers) to go to the stadiums and get updates of the scores and feed it into the website ourselves.

However, I said thats not it works and we would get some kind of feed. But I am not sure how that would work.

How exactly would this work? What would I be getting from whom in what format? How do I make use of that and display the scores on my site?

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i think the easiest way is to install a video cam that captures their scoreboard and stream it live on your site.

if they are using computerize scoreboard, you can ask them if their system can pass you the variables of the scores. Otherwise I think live cam is your best shot.

Just make sure your buffer size is low to make it as real time as possible. streaming video has some delay. you have to consider that
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Not videos. I mean displaying a live scorecard on the site.
Forget about using a cam or any video capture.

What type of feed(s) should I be using?
(eg: RSS or XML or something else)

i want to know the process/procedure and technicalities involved.
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Sounds good. I am not sure what the provider is going to do. I would have to get intouch with them and find out.

1. Which would work on/with wordpress ?

2. If I design a table to display a static table and use it for older match scores.
Can I use the same design and layout to display the new/dynamic/updating scores?
how to do this?

3. Or would it be easier or simpler to do something else?

4. Is there a plugin or script(s) to do this or to make it easier?
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