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Global Baseball FAQs

Frequently asked questions for Global Baseball v2

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Coverage

What leagues do you cover, and at what level?

Coverage information can be found via our Coverage Matrix.


How do I find out the coverage for a particular match?

Find the node called coverage in any of the Summary, Lineups, or Timeline feeds. The attribute coverage.live reports if Sportradar has live coverage of the match or not.


Why do different groups have coverage information for a competition?

The notion of “groups” is versatile and is used to distinguish between playoffs, and our competition structures and is therefore necessary to describe coverage at a group level for consistency. Generally, however, within a competition in Baseball, there will be no difference between competition coverage.


How will a sport event behave when it is not covered with live scores?

When a sport_event is not covered live, the status and match_status will remain as not_started until results are entered post-match.

<sport_event_status status="not_started" match_status="not_started"/>

How are “Live” endpoints handled in the API?

Sport Events appear in the feed 10 minutes before the scheduled start time and are removed 10 minutes after the Sport Event is ended. Live endpoints include: Live Summaries, Live Timelines, and Live Timelines Delta.


How do I access NCAA Women's Softball?

All softball competitions can be accessed by changing the sport parameter from baseball to softball.

Please note that you must use your Master API Key within your account to access softball data.


Integration

How can I find the values for various enum data points within the API?

Many enum values are listed in the FAQ below. For the most up-to-date values, please see the Schema
section of the OpenAPI specification here.


What format are date fields presented in?

When we present date only values we present these in the ISO 8601 standard format.

ex: 2013-04-03

We use these for attributes that have date and no time (such as birthdate). For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601


What format are the date/time fields presented in?

All of our Date/Time attributes are in UTC, presented in the ISO 8601 standard format.

ex: 2013-04-03T18:15:00+00:00

For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601


How do I locate the TTL (Time to Live)/cache on an API endpoint?

The cache (in seconds) can be accessed in the returned header information on each RESTful API call, under cache-control.

ex. cache-control: max-age=1, public, s-maxage=1 or
cache-control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=120


Sport Event Statuses

What are the valid sport_event_status - status values?

Here are the valid sport_event_status values and their definitions:

  • not_started – The match is scheduled to be played
  • match_about_to_start – The match is about to begin
  • started – The match has started
  • live – The match is currently in progress
  • postponed – The match has been postponed to a future date
  • suspended - The match began, but has been suspended to a later time
  • delayed – The match has been temporarily delayed and will be continued
  • cancelled – The match has been cancelled and will not be played
  • interrupted - The match began, but coverage has stopped for a short time. Note that match scores may not be updated during this period, the last recorded match score will be displayed instead
  • ended – The match is over
  • closed – The match results have been confirmed

What are the valid sport_event_status – match_status values?

Here are the valid match_status values:

  • not_started
  • start_delayed
  • aet
  • interrupted
  • ended
  • postponed
  • started
  • abandoned
  • cancelled
  • overtime
  • 1st_inning
  • 2nd_inning
  • 3rd_inning
  • 4th_inning
  • 5th_inning
  • 6th_inning
  • 7th_inning
  • 8th_inning
  • 9th_inning
  • pause

Event Types

What are the possible event types logged?

Here are the valid event types:

  • match_started
  • period_start
  • score_change
  • period_score
  • break_start
  • match_ended
<event id="1424107371" type="break_start" time="2023-04-09T17:55:53+00:00" break_name="break"/>
<event id="1424107381" type="period_score" time="2023-04-09T17:55:53+00:00" period="1" home_score="1" away_score="2"/>
<event id="1424108841" type="period_start" time="2023-04-09T17:57:50+00:00" period_name="2nd_inning"/>
<event id="1424122097" type="break_start" time="2023-04-09T18:10:30+00:00" break_name="break"/>
<event id="1424122109" type="period_score" time="2023-04-09T18:10:30+00:00" period="2" home_score="0" away_score="0"/>
<event id="1424124045" type="period_start" time="2023-04-09T18:12:37+00:00" period_name="3rd_inning"/>
<event id="1424136557" type="break_start" time="2023-04-09T18:25:12+00:00" break_name="break"/>

    "timeline": [
        {
            "id": 1424093681,
            "type": "match_started",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:41:45+00:00"
        },
        {
            "id": 1424093679,
            "type": "period_start",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:41:45+00:00",
            "period_name": "1st_inning"
        },
        {
            "id": 1424097295,
            "type": "score_change",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:45:21+00:00",
            "match_time": 4,
            "match_clock": "3:35",
            "competitor": "away",
            "home_score": 0,
            "away_score": 1,
            "players": [
                {
                    "id": "sr:player:1644936",
                    "name": "France, Ty",
                    "type": "scorer"
                },
                {
                    "id": "sr:player:1487430",
                    "name": "Raleigh, Cal",
                    "type": "assist"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": 1424097301,
            "type": "score_change",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:45:21+00:00",
            "match_time": 4,
            "match_clock": "3:35",
            "competitor": "away",
            "home_score": 0,
            "away_score": 2,
            "players": [
                {
                    "id": "sr:player:1487430",
                    "name": "Raleigh, Cal",
                    "type": "scorer"
                },
                {
                    "id": "sr:player:1487430",
                    "name": "Raleigh, Cal",
                    "type": "assist"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": 1424104469,
            "type": "score_change",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:52:38+00:00",
            "match_time": 11,
            "match_clock": "10:53",
            "competitor": "home",
            "home_score": 1,
            "away_score": 2,
            "players": [
                {
                    "id": "sr:player:1721884",
                    "name": "Kwan, Steven",
                    "type": "scorer"
                },
                {
                    "id": "sr:player:842971",
                    "name": "Ramirez, Jose",
                    "type": "assist"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": 1424107371,
            "type": "break_start",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:55:53+00:00",
            "break_name": "break"
        },
        {
            "id": 1424107381,
            "type": "period_score",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:55:53+00:00",
            "period": "1",
            "home_score": 1,
            "away_score": 2
        },
        {
            "id": 1424108841,
            "type": "period_start",
            "time": "2023-04-09T17:57:50+00:00",
            "period_name": "2nd_inning"
        },

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