Integration Scenarios

These scenarios show how to incorporate live game updates, track standings, manage roster changes, follow the postseason, and keep a local store reconciled. Each one names its relevant feeds, walks the integration steps against UFL payloads, and closes with cadence guidance.

The Scenarios

Scenario	What it covers
Pulling Schedules	Season, weekly, and current-week schedule retrieval; scores in schedules; deleted games
Tracking Live Games	Polling a game through its lifecycle: boxscore, play-by-play, statistics, and rosters
Tracking Standings	Postgame standings, clinch markers, strength of schedule, and record splits
Retrieving Rosters and Players	Team rosters, player profiles, game rosters, depth charts, injuries, and transactions
Retrieving Seasonal Statistics	Team and player season statistics, including the UFL-specific categories
Tracking Playoffs	The postseason schedule and the tournament bracket feeds
Monitoring Data Changes	Change detection and store reconciliation

Where to Start

If you are building	Start with	Then add
A scores app or ticker	Pulling Schedules	Tracking Live Games
A live gamecast	Tracking Live Games	Game Status Workflow
A league table or race tracker	Tracking Standings	Tracking Playoffs
Team and player pages	Retrieving Rosters and Players	Retrieving Seasonal Statistics
A stats warehouse	Retrieving Seasonal Statistics	Monitoring Data Changes
Backfilling past seasons	Historical Data	Pulling Schedules

Before You Build

Read UFL API Basics for authentication, URL structure, and error handling
Read ID Handling before choosing storage keys
Check Update Frequencies before settling polling cadences
Game Status Workflow explains the lifecycle every scenario branches on