Fixture XML

The structure

<fixtures id="LEAGUE_ID" ut="DATE_OF_LAST_UPDATE" sport="WHICH_SPORT" template="TEMPLATE NAME" tournament="SEASON" league="LEAGUE NAME"> <fixture id="EVENT_ID" name="EVENT NAME" date="STARTTIME" round="ROUND" status="EVENT STATUS"> <participants> <participant participantid="PARTICIPANT A ID (HOME TEAM IN TEAM SPORTS)" participantname="PARTICIPANT A NAME"/> <participant participantid="PARTICIPANT B ID (AWAY TEAM IN TEAM SPORTS)" participantname="PARTICIPANT B NAME"/> <participant participantid="PARTICIPANT C ID (ONLY FOR INDIVIDUAL SPORTS)" participantname="PARTICIPANT C NAME"/> <participant participantid="PARTICIPANT D ID (ONLY FOR INDIVIDUAL SPORTS)" participantname="PARTICIPANT D NAME"/> <participant participantid="PARTICIPANT X ID (ONLY FOR INDIVIDUAL SPORTS)" participantname="PARTICIPANT X NAME"/> </participants> </fixture> </fixtures> Participants for individual sports (i.e. winter sports and golf) aren't normally set in fixtures but rather first in live xml around 1 hour prior to event start

Football example

<fixtures id="820812" ut="2010-11-26" sport="Football" template="Austria tipp3-Bundesliga" tournament="2010/2011" league="tipp3-Bundesliga"> <fixture id="848464" name="Kapfenberg-Wiener Neustadt" date="2010-11-27 16:00:00" round="17" status="Not started"> <participants> <participant participantid="9979" participantname="Kapfenberg"/> <participant participantid="1953" participantname="Wiener Neustadt"/> </participants> </fixture> </fixtures>

Tennis example

<fixtures id="822610" ut="2011-01-04" sport="Tennis" template="ATP" tournament="2011" league="Qatar ExxonMobil Open"> <fixture id="962872" name="Viktor Troicki-Sergiy Stakhovsky" date="2011-01-04 16:30:00" round="4013" status="Not started"> <participants> <participant participantid="49046" participantname="Viktor Troicki"/> <participant participantid="48655" participantname="Sergiy Stakhovsky"/> </participants> </fixture> <fixture id="962878" name="Ernests Gulbis/Mischa Zverev-Fabio Fognini/Igor Zelenay" date="2011-01-04 16:30:00" round="NULL" status="Not started"> <participants> <participant participantid="49053" participantname="Ernests Gulbis/Mischa Zverev"/> <participant participantid="48831" participantname="Fabio Fognini/Igor Zelenay"/> </participants> </fixture> </fixtures>

Cross Country example

<fixtures id="821135" ut="2010-11-26" sport="Cross Country Skiing" template="World Cup" tournament="2010/2011" league="WC Falun"> <fixture id="866682" name="2.5 km Classic" date="2011-03-18 13:30:00" round="8001 - 1/1 (Final)" status="Not started"/> <fixture id="866684" name="2x5 km Mixed Double Pursuit" date="2011-03-19 13:15:00" round="8001 - 1/1 (Final)" status="Not started"/> <fixture id="866683" name="10 km Freestyle" date="2011-03-20 13:15:00" round="8001 - 1/1 (Final)" status="Not started"/> </fixtures> The final in winter sports will always have the round = "8001 - 1/1 (Final)"

Rounds in tennis

The values for the "Round" value are the draw order together with the round number, the last 3 digits in the property is the draw order and first digit is our representation of the round number.

Example of draw order using metadata.

The first number is the round number specified as follows:

The last event (i.e. the final) in a tennis tournament is round 8, semi finals are 7, quarter finals 6 etc. Furthermore, 9 is for Round Robin matches, where 94XX is 1/16, 95XX is quarter-finals and 96XX is semi-finals. Davis Cup is: 10501-08 (1st round), 10601-04 (1/4)…10701-02(1/2)….10801 (final). World team Cup is: 11701-11706 1-6 match.

Number of participants can be derived from our "Round number" using this formula

Number of participants = 2 ^ (9 - Round) Where Round is between 8 and 1 both included Number of events = 2 ^ (8 - Round) Where Round is between 8 and 1 both included