Sports Data Marketplace Overview: Sports Data Marketplace Overview Fractionalized Multiple sources of data for each sport. Integrity of data varies. Leagues are seeking greater control over real-time data.


Sources of sports data : Sources of sports data News agency employee attends sports event and gathers information Stringer (free-lancer) for news agency provides information Team employee provides information League, conference, sanctioning body provides information Third-party provider (Quokka, Stats Inc., Sportsticker).


Restrictions on sports information: Restrictions on sports information Major professional sports in the U.S. are moving toward controlling use of in-progress game statistics and written accounts. NBA prohibits more than three updates per quarter of in-progress statistics or narrative accounts. NFL limits depth of detail in real-time feeds (for example, you can’t say who ran the ball) Major League Baseball restricts in-progress reporting; requires licensing. Some college teams and college conference license in-progress updates to a single provider.


Who controls sports data?: Who controls sports data? Landmark case in 1997 (the NBA vs. Motorola and Stats Inc.) involving the transmission of real-time text account of a game. U.S. federal appeals court ruled: "It is the broadcast, not the underlying game, that is the subject of copyright protection.” The facts delivered over wireless devices and online services differ from television or radio broadcasts because they “reproduce only factual information culled from the broadcasts and none of the copyrightable expression of the games.’’


Mark up what?: Mark up what? Real-time score information In-progress statistical information End of event story End of event statistics Team statistics Individual statistics League standings or rankings


Sports Markup: Sports Markup The leagues Olympics SportsTicker (ESPN) Stats Inc. (Fox) The AP ScreamingMedia


Olympics Data: Olympics Data Transmission envelop follows ANPA guidelines A field-separator delimited feed Stream of data delivered over leased line Uses a spec developed for `96 summer games by press agencies in conjunction with IOC. No current plans to change feed to XML.


Olympics feed fileOfficial Results for Men's 100m Final :ATM001101 (O)100031-07-199609h589011+0.5100210695ChristieLinfordGBR9.96100221272FredericksFrankNAM10.02100231738MitchellDennisUSA10.04100240247SurinBrunyCAN10.09100251675BurrellLeroy RusselUSA10.10100261294AdenikenOlapadeNGR10.12100271064StewartRaymond DouglasJAM10.22100281299EzinwaDavidsonNGR10.26: Olympics feed file Official Results for Men's 100m Final : ATM001101 (O) 100031-07-199609h58 9011+0.5 100210695ChristieLinfordGBR9.96 100221272FredericksFrankNAM10.02 100231738MitchellDennisUSA10.04 100240247SurinBrunyCAN10.09 100251675BurrellLeroy RusselUSA10.10 100261294AdenikenOlapadeNGR10.12 100271064StewartRaymond DouglasJAM10.22 100281299EzinwaDavidsonNGR10.26


Third-party sports statistics providers: Third-party sports statistics providers SportsTicker (ESPN) -- comma delimited feed. The Sports Network, Southampton, Pa. No XML feed. Elias Sports Bureau – Internal XML, no XML feed. Stats, Inc. (Fox) – Has 13 sports in XML.


Stats Inc. Baseball boxscore: Stats Inc. Baseball boxscore - - Full box score - - - -


Slide11: AP Baseball boxscore I983050132 Full boxscore NO catching changes in the game for either team......... V8 Copyright 2001 The Associated Press Devil Rays 2, Athletics 5 6/1/99 2:57 7170 43012 PhillipsHome


ScreamingMedia real-time report: ScreamingMedia real-time report Florida-New Jersey Timed Score Full report AP-HKN--Florida-NewJerse HNAAFAAA,HNAAAAAB,RT,-NOTRT AP-HKN--Florida-New Jersey Timed Score


Sports DTD development issues: Sports DTD development issues One DTD for team sports and one DTD for all individual sports? A different DTD for each sport?