A week spent mostly on speed and on making live information easier to trust at a glance.
Faster pages across the site
League pages that used to take between one and two and a half seconds now settle at around a fifth to half a second, and our on-this-day pages dropped from roughly 1.4 seconds to under a third of a second. Team fixtures, team form, manager match histories, match pages and the tennis schedules all got the same attention, so lists appear sooner and stop shifting about while you read them. Pulling fixtures, events and odds through the API is noticeably quicker too, especially in bulk.
Odds now tell you when they are live
Every price, whether you read it through the API or receive it on the live feed, now carries a clear in-play marker. You can see straight away whether a number belongs to a match in progress or to a fixture that has not kicked off, which saves a lot of guesswork when you are building screens or settling your own numbers.
Fuller player data, friendlier search
Player statistics now cover the entire matchday squad rather than only the players who got on the pitch, so substitutes and unused bench players are there for you to work with. Player search also ignores accents, so typing Muller finds Müller, and results come back faster than they did last week.
Steadier live data
Updates to the site no longer leave short gaps where a page or a live connection might stumble, and live score streams now pick up every improvement as soon as it is ready. If a source behind the scenes goes quiet, we spot it within half an hour instead of two, so problems get fixed before most people notice. The tennis stall reported back in September has been traced and fixed.
Simpler sign-in, fewer pointless emails
You can now sign in with either your username or the email on your account, and reset messages name the account in question so there is no confusion. Subscriptions that renew on their own no longer receive expiry warnings, the Sports Add-on price is listed correctly at $7 a month ($5 on the founder rate), and there is a new page introducing the people behind BSD.