Idea: Annotation for sports scores & plays when commenting/reacting/liking a Facebook post about a game starting soon/during play/after finished including score chart with reactions/liking by time 5.6.2016 (#142)

Purpose is to help provide context for people reading the social post, and encourage people to post by providing the context to show what they think.

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D.J. Sherrets

4 min readMay 7, 2016

Title: Introducing live sports posts
Introduction: Ever seen a post and its comments about a sports game that feels out of date later when the game changes? Now, live sports posts provides the context of the game time left, the score, and even the most recent play to each comment/reaction/like so you can quickly understand what and why something was shared.

Sports related posts can include the score in the game that is lived updated.
But sports related posts on social networks such as Facebook do not provide context about comments to say when those were included and how that relates to the game.
In some cases, people make multiple posts about a given sports game as a way to provide updated commentary, but really in concept sharing to one post may be more useful for people to be able to refer to that post as a resource.

Start in the feed 2 hours after you have posted a story about watching a particular sports game. Note that there is an annotation about the score, time in the game, and last play when you posted your update about watching the game. Note that the scores show the latest time and score in the game. Scroll down in the feed to see more posts by friends.
Scroll back up then tap “3 comments” to expand and see the graph of the score of the game over time with each team charted and the reactions/likes shown on the graph at the time each was made by friends. Scroll to read the 2 additional comments and note the annotation that includes the play.
Tap to make a comment and enter the comment, then see that an annotation was added at the moment of tapping to add a comment. Note that “Delete play” is an option if you don’t want any annotation to show.
Tap “Select play” to see 3 more options for plays to select from. Then tap the second play to change the selection. Then tap to post which scrolls automatically to show your comment added.

Opportunity is to help provide context about a sports game when someone posts to a social network and to help make that post interesting/relevant no mater what happens in the game.
When game is over, include a time graph that shows the score over time and at what times reactions/likes appeared for ease of seeing how sentiment may have changed before/during/after a game.
Note that when typing a comment that there is an annotation that appears, and there’s an ability to tap to remove or to tap to update the annotation. For example, when tapping to open the comment, an annotation may appear that includes information at that time, but perhaps the person commenting may want to refresh to include a more updated version of the post.
Note that the annotation for a comment can indicate which team is being referred to by having a small icons or each team that reflects the larger icon used in the scoreboard in the post.
Alternatively, consider whether any play should be included in case people do not want to use and perhaps may want to use the annotation of score and time left in the game instead. A reason for this is that the play text may not be as interesting.
Alternatively, allow the annotation for the play to include a video of the last play such as provided by a media partner or even if there are videos provided by other users. Then there is context for people to actually wanted the play that had happened.