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Basketball

Basketball

domestic and continental

Five a side over four quarters. Scoring is frequent, so a game is followed by quarter and by running total rather than by a single decisive event.

The model

What Basketball needs that a generic model does not give it.

Every sport gets its own entities and its own scoring shape. We do not force one structure onto all of them.

Scoring unitPoints, by quarter
Progress markerQuarter and running clock
Season structureFive a side over four quarters. Scoring is frequent, so a game is followed by quarter and by running total rather than by a single decisive event.

Product experience

What we build for Basketball.

The page types and computed values this sport implies. Descriptions are of the intended product for this sport.

  • Standings with win-loss records rather than points from results
  • Box-score style match pages built around quarter splits
  • Player pages weighted to per-game averages
  • Team form over a rolling window of games

— Match, player and table figures shown on this page are sample data. See coverage for the competition index.

Illustration

The shared match component.

The same component renders each sport in its own scoring shape. Shown here with football, basketball and volleyball, because those are the shapes we can illustrate today.

Match states across sports Illustrative demo
FootballLive

LaLiga · Matchday 21

Real Madrid2Girona1
Goals67′

Tsygankov 63′ · Vinícius Jr 41′

BasketballLive

Regular season

Home78Away74
Points · by quarterQ3 04:12

22-19 · 18-25 · 20-18 · 18-12

VolleyballFinal

National league

Home3Away1
SetsFT

25-21 · 22-25 · 25-18 · 25-23