The Match Viewer displays the current state of sports matches, and events that happen within them, in real time. It can be used by traders and other specialists, or even just fans who want to follow the progress of a match. It can be used from any device with a Web browser and an internet connection.
The Match Viewer is backed by Genius Sports's technology platform and statistician network.
The Match Viewer is available at https://matchviewer.geniussports.com.
The current version of the Match Viewer only supports Football (Soccer) matches.
Login & Licensing
To access the Match Viewer, you need an active account with a username and password. These user accounts are created by Genius Sports. If you don't have an account, contact your GS representative.
Each user account has access to a specific range of fixtures (specific sports, leagues, etc.). To modify this licensing for your account, contact your GS representative.
You can use the Forgot your password? link to reset your password. A one-time recovery password will be sent to the email address associated with your account. After you log in, you will have to set a new secure password.
After you log in, you will see three tabs: Live, Schedule and Settings.
Roles
There are two different roles in the Match Viewer.
Admin-User, who can:
- See All Fixtures Page, where all fixtures, for which the client is licensed are listed
- Book and unbook fixtures
- See everything else, which the trader-user can see.
Regular-User, who can
- See only the fixtures, which an admin-user has booked (in Scheduled Fixtures tab)
- See My Fixtures tab, which contains the list of fixtures that the user want to be displayed on the Live Page
Booking Mode
To be able to book fixtures the admin-user need to go into 'booking mode', which is done be clicking on the toggle in the top right corner of the All Fixtures tab of the Schedule Page.
In order to prevent accidental clicking, the admin-user is warned that booking a fixture will lead to billing so he can be careful when selecting fixtures.
When booking mode is on, a 'book' button is active for every fixture.
Booked fixtures appear in the Scheduled Fixtures tab of admin-users and trader-users as well. From there they can select, which fixtures they want to assign to themselves so they will appear on their Live Page.
Schedule
This is where you select the fixtures for viewing. The available fixtures are limited to those for which your account is licensed.
For each fixture, you will see the following information:
- Start (local) - the start time of the match, in your timezone (based on your device's current time).
- Competition - the league or tournament to which this match belongs.
- Fixture - the teams or competitors in this match.
- Coverage - indicates whether the event is covered from the venue or TV (information will be available soon)
- Lineups - indicates whether the event has lineup information or not (information will be available soon)
- Assigned - check this box to add this fixture to your Live tab.
The All Fixtures tab displays all available fixtures in your selected date range. The Scheduled Fixtures tab displays only fixtures that you have selected.
By default, the Schedule displays fixtures with start times from -3 hours to +12 hours from the current time. Use the Date Range button to expand your selection of fixtures.
Not all fixtures from the selected Date Range are loaded at one. The user can see the first batch of fixtures and scrolling down will automatically load more fixtures.
Live
This page displays a widget for each fixture that was selected in the Schedule.
By default, the fixtures are arranged in the order that they were selected. Hold/click and drag the widget to rearrange fixtures.
The background colors of widgets on this page mean:
- White - the match has not started yet, or had ended, or is in half-time.
- Green - the match is in progress, but safe.
- Yellow - an attack is in progress.
- Red - Danger State: an event that can affect the fixture's markets.
If the widget itself is greyed out, then there is no feed from this match into the Genius Sports system. This is usually true for a match that will begin far into the future (so our statisticians have not connected yet), or the match has ended a long time ago.
Fixture Widgets
You can expand each fixture to show up to five different widget sections. Click the 
button in the top right corner to select the widgets for this fixture.
The main fixture widget contains:
- The competition name;
- The names of the teams/sides;
- For each team, a color box that shows the primary and secondary color of their kit;
- The score;
- The current game time and Started time;
- Indicator of VAR support
- A color indicator of the quality of the feed (connection to Genius Sports's source of InPlay data):
- Green - event feed is active;
- Red - event feed is unreliable or disconnected;
- Grey - no feed (including in PreMatch, before our statistician has logged on).
- A short summary of statistics per side:
- Yellow cards;
- Red cards;
- Shots on goal;
- Corner kicks;
- Dangerous attacks;
- Percentage of ball possession.
To avoid confusion between fixtures with the same starting time, but on a different date, in the Summary Component it is shown 'Today', 'Yesterday', 'Tomorrow', or in the rest of cases the date of the fixture.
Fixtures can be resized by moving the slider on the top right corner. Three different widget sizes are available - small, medium, large.
To close a fixture click on the three dots in the upper-right corner, scroll down and click on the remove fixture button.
In addition to the main (summary) widget, the following extra widgets are available:
Statistics
The number of events of each type in this match, per side. Click the 
button to expand the list.
Match Events
A detailed list of each event in this match, newest to oldest. Click the
button to select the types of events you want to see.The color box in a match event shows the team in possession of the ball (by their kit color, as in the main widget). The events are also color-coded by type.
For each match event, there is a timestamp and a sequential number of this event in the match.
- The timestamp is shown in game time. If you hover over the timestamp, you will see a popup showing it in real time (based on your device's timezone).
Match Info
Organizational information about the match:
- Fixture ID - the match's internal ID number in the Genius Sports system. Click Copy to copy the number to your clipboard.
- Coverage - tba
- Round - for tournament matches, the round/stage of the tournament (Group, Quarterfinal, Semifinal, Final).
- Venue Name - the name of the stadium, and whether it is the Home, Away or Neutral venue. Home or Away are determined based on the first (left) side in the fixture name.
- Format - tba
- VAR rule - whether or not this match uses the Video Assistant Referee.
The list of players on each side, along with their jersey numbers. Has separate tabs for Home and Away teams. Substitutions (and the time when they were made) are shown in brackets.
Not every competition has VAR support. Where VAR is supported, this is indicated in the on the main widget, with the abbreviation VAR appearing on the left side of the clock.
LineUps
The list of players on each side, along with their jersey numbers. Has separate tabs for Home and Away teams. Substitutions (and the time when they were made) are shown in brackets.
Not every competition and fixture provides lineups. Where they are available, this is also indicated on the main widget, with the word LineUps appearing under the start time.
Mixed Match Events
if you check this box, this fixture's Match Events will be added to the sidebar.
The Mixed Match Events sidebar displays match events from all selected fixtures in real time.
- This setting is not retroactive. The sidebar will show all match events from the time the setting was activated, but will not load previous events from a match in progress.
- Use the
button to select the types of event that will be shown in the sidebar. - The bold team is in possession of the ball.
- Each event in the sidebar shows a timestamp.
If you want to always see the Mixed Match Events sidebar, go to 1307771035.
Event Popups
When an important event happens in a match that you are following, a popup will appear. It will show a summary of the event and the match state at this time. You will need to click Acknowledge to close the popup.
Until you have acknowledged an event, you cannot close the popup and interact with the Match Viewer. If more events occur, they are stacked and will appear as popups in sequence. You need to acknowledge all events individually.
Settings
In this section, you can change how the Match Viewer is displayed for you.
Event Settings
Under this tab, you can select which event types are displayed in the 1307771035 widget and 1307771035 sidebar. This way, you don't need to make a selection for each widget individually.
The user can choose for which events Popup notification are displayed.
Note: Selections from a widget/sidebar's own filter will override these settings.
Check the boxes that you want, and click Save at the bottom of the page.
Layout Settings
Under this tab, you can select the components that will appear for each fixture widget. You can also select Mixed Match Feeds to always show the sidebar.
Note: Selections from a widget/sidebar's own filter will override these settings.
Check the boxes that you want, and click Save at the bottom of the page.
