[curious]

that wouldn't lock up your computer if I had a live data feed. Or nearly live. Trying to find one. This is ridiculous.

This only became an issue for me when I started playing half and quarter bets. Now I need to see the scores and the time remaining in the quarter/half as it is NOW, not how it was a half hour ago. And I don't want my computer slowed down to a crawl while idiotic scripts run in the background. I could write a lightening fast web page if I had the data.

[SBR Lou]

All comes down to the amount of games on the board at the time, I believe. Used one the other night to check a late basketball game, and I was impressed, almost in real-time as far as the play-by-play updates.

Then the next night I checked it out again but it kept locking up so I didn't bother with it. I'm not too concerned with them, a lot of times I'll just check the scores at the relevant periods or quarters and go from there. The actual progress doesn't matter to me much.

[curious]

All comes down to the amount of games on the board at the time, I believe. Used one the other night to check a late basketball game, and I was impressed, almost in real-time as far as the play-by-play updates.

Then the next night I checked it out again but it kept locking up so I didn't bother with it. I'm not too concerned with them, a lot of times I'll just check the scores at the relevant periods or quarters and go from there. The actual progress doesn't matter to me much.

This is what I do for a living, design and build lightening fast software, it just bugs me to see software so poorly written. There is no need to do a page refresh every 30 seconds, just go get the data and update anything that changed on the page, only the scores change, no need to redraw the whole damm page.

[jjgold]

we need a simple text scorepage

text pages never freeze a pc

[SBR Lou]

Some guys use the Insider subscription for ESPN to get a real-time scoreboard on basketball, never checked that out but it's only like $40 a year if I recall correctly.

[jjgold]

the espn paid scoreboard is a live moving clock on any game of your choice. It is pretty impressive. I have it but don't use it much.

[remmy358]

the espn paid scoreboard is a live moving clock on any game of your choice. It is pretty impressive. I have it but don't use it much.

that's what espn says but it is 100% false.

i had it and the updates were the same as the normal web page. for some college games it doesn't update until every 5-10 minutes. service is a hoax