How-to build a match page with events and statistics
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Welcome to our how-to guide about creating a match page that is filled with various events and statistics. This is a follow-up on the guide. The livescore page only shows the live score of the match and sometimes the bigger events such as goals, substitutions, and cards. For basic knowledge about , , and please see our tutorials.
You are going to need the following tools:
SportMonks API token
Code editor (Visual studio used in examples)
Postman (optional)
At SportMonks we offer the following events:
Goals
Red and yellow cards
Substitutions
VAR
Extra time
Score in between Half and Final time
Corners
For match statistics, think about anything that can happen during a match such as: The number of shots, passes, attacks, fouls, corners, offsides, yellow/red cards, saves, substitutions, goal attempts, penalties, injuries, and many more. Player statistics are all the relevant statistics regarding a player, such as the number of goals scored, how many fouls he made, and the number of cards received, etc.
Player and match statistics do not have endpoints, but instead can be evoked with includes.
Match statistics use the include stats.
Player statistics use the includes lineup and bench.
It’s also possible to include both stats, lineup and bench includes in the same request, but expect a lengthy response in that case.
In this how-to guide, we’ll show you how to request events data, player and match statistics, and head2head data:
Here, we can see the detailed player statistics of the player named S. Bain. Apart from standard player information such as which team he belongs to, what his player id or position is. We can see the total number of shots, goals, fouls, cards, passing, dribbles and duels. There’s also an ‘other’ tab with even more information, but we won’t go into detail for that one.
As its name suggests, we can see the team statistics of the home team. We can see the number of shots, passes, attacks, and a plethora of other data of the entire team.
Events show goals, cards, and substitutions and at which exact minute this happened. So, we can see that in the 14th-minute player S. Rosted scored the 0-1 and got an assist from J. Lindstrom.
Player J. Lauridsen got substituted for M. Kallesoe in the 25th minute. And finally, player M. Schwabe got a yellow card in the 91st minute.
Now for the head2head, you’ll probably get a huge response because head2head is every single encounter the two teams have had. The most recent ones will be on top of the list. General information about each match will be given, such as its fixture id, season id, winner of the match, the final score, date of when the game was played, how many minutes the match was, and much more.
In case, you want to see the lineups of players who played at the time, you can simply add the include lineup,bench.
You can find a link to another article where we discuss the tools in-depth on our
The standard events include consists of goals, substitutions, and cards. There is also the include called corners and many more. For a full list of the possible includes see our
Since this is about a single match page with various events and stats, we will need the specific fixture ID. Henceforth, we’ll work with the
You can compare two teams' past results against each other. This is often used to see how one team performs against another. This endpoint is simply called
For an overview of field descriptions, you can refer to our .
