Define the sports odds feed your betting product needs

Core Data scopes prematch and in-play feed enquiries around the sports, competitions, market states, customer use, and operating behavior the product requires. Current supply and delivery are confirmed in the proposal rather than assumed from a broad catalog.

A useful sports odds feed is defined by the decisions your product has to make. A sportsbook, odds-comparison service, media experience, and analytical platform can need very different coverage, event states, update behavior, and rights even when they follow the same sport.

Start with a written inventory of sports, competitions, territories, market types, customer use, and launch priorities. Core Data Services uses that brief to confirm what is currently available and what belongs in the proposed implementation.

Prematch and in-play odds are different operating workflows. Prematch planning focuses on schedules, participants, market creation, changes before the event, and the handoff into live status. In-play planning adds event-state timing, suspensions, resumptions, corrections, and the way the customer product responds as play changes.

Do not assume that a sport, league, or market listed in a catalog is available in every state or territory. Put each required combination into the evaluation scope and confirm it in writing.

• Fixtures, participants, start times, event identifiers, and status changes
• Required prematch and live market types for each competition
• How open, suspended, resumed, corrected, resulted, and settled states must be represented
• What happens when an event is delayed, abandoned, rescheduled, or corrected
• Any result, settlement, historical, or audit information the operation needs to retain

Broad sport counts hide the questions that determine whether an odds feed is useful. Compare exact leagues, seasons, events, market types, and event states. Then separate must-have launch coverage from additions that can follow later.

Our retained competition and market catalogs provide a planning reference across the sports listed on this site. They are not a guarantee of present supply. Current coverage, delivery, commercial availability, and permitted use are confirmed for each enquiry.

• Agree the delivery method, schema, authentication, identifiers, timestamps, and environments to evaluate
• Document snapshot, incremental-update, reconnect, replay, correction, and recovery expectations where relevant
• Measure timing from a clearly defined point and review normal, peak, and disrupted conditions
• Test representative sports and markets across prematch, live, correction, result, and settlement workflows
• Record acceptance criteria, operational owners, escalation paths, rollout gates, and rollback conditions

The final comparison should use the exact contracted scope rather than assumptions drawn from a marketing page. Ask every provider to identify included sports and markets, delivery and recovery behavior, support responsibility, permitted use, pricing basis, overages, contract term, and exit provisions.

That creates a like-for-like decision and reduces the risk of discovering a coverage, technical, or rights gap after engineering work has begun.