Video overlays

A scoreboard for your Ultimate stream

Put a live scoreboard, team statistics and player graphics over your video — or add them to a game you have already filmed. Free and open source, and there is nothing to sign up for.

Sign in Nothing is set up here yet. Sign in as the administrator to create an event — the teams and games everything else draws from.

the spotter Per-throw statistics, by voice. Opens in training mode, which needs no game; live spotting follows one.

What this is

Streaming a game — the scoreboard sits over your picture in OBS, or any streaming software that can show a web page, and keeps itself up to date: score, clock, timeouts, time caps, and whether a point was a hold or a break.
Filmed it without streaming? Most club games are recorded on one camera and nothing else. The same graphics can be added to that footage afterwards — and the score for it can be kept on a phone at the sideline with no signal at all, which is the usual case at a club pitch.
Keeping score is two large buttons on a phone at the sideline, and it keeps working when the signal does not — which, at a pitch in a park, it frequently does not. Add the page to a phone's home screen and it opens as an app with no network at all: keep several games through a weekend, then send or export them when you are home. Keeping score with no signal is the whole of it in a page, including what happens if two people keep score at once.
Commentators get their own screen, never on air: both rosters, who is on the field, season statistics, and notes prepared before the game. In mixed divisions it follows the gender ratio and the matchings.

One person with a camera needs a laptop, a phone and free software — that is the whole kit. Tournament organisers can run several fields at once, and where an event already uses tournament software, the schedule, rosters and scores arrive by themselves instead of being typed a second time. Associations can run it on their own server, keeping their data, and give every event the same look.

Nobody needs an account. A commentator or a scorekeeper is handed a link and a five-character code, and that is the whole of it. Further out — designed, written up, and not built — are instant replays and a small box at the field that draws the graphics so that no laptop has to.

This has never run at a real tournament yet. If you stream Ultimate and would be willing to try it, or simply to tell me what looked wrong, that is worth more to this project right now than any new feature.

Browser-source URLs for a video switcher (OBS, Magewell Director Mini, Yolobox).

Stage

Pick the game you are covering, point the switcher at the URL below once, and change what is on screen from this page. Several games can run at the same time — one stage URL each, one switcher each. The game list further down gives single-graphic scoreboard URLs instead, for a switcher that wants one fixed overlay and no control.

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Feed and diagnostics

What this page can see of the game data, and the switch that lets a failing overlay say what is wrong. It reports this laptop's view — an overlay running in a switcher is a separate browser, and nothing here can watch it.

Checking…

Games

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Short URLs — short enough to type on a switcher's on-screen keyboard:

/s/stage — the stage: one URL for the whole broadcast, contents controlled from this page. Usually the only one you need.
/s/702 — scoreboard for game 702, transparent background. A fixed single graphic, for a switcher that wants one source per game instead.
/s/702/green — on a chroma-key background. Also blue, magenta, black, or any six-digit hex (/s/702/FF00FF). Only needed if your switcher cannot key on alpha.
/s/ — this page

/live/overlays/702 and /live/overlays/702/green do the same thing and keep working even if the root shortcut is removed.

Full parameters — on the long form (?view=live/overlays/scoreboard&game=702):

position — top-left, top-center (default), top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right
homecolor, awaycolor — six-digit hex, overriding the pool colour (&homecolor=FF0000)
interval — minimum poll interval in ms (default 5000). The overlay also honours the API's own cache expiry, so a finished game stops being re-fetched.
bg — page background, as /s/<id>/<colour> above.

Set the browser source to 1920×1080 with a transparent background.

Studio

Stage

Feed and diagnostics

Games

Keyboard