on September 6, 2025, 12:26 pm, in reply to "That's a brilliant business idea, but possibly one drawback..."
You’re right though, the duration is very different.
But:
- some people do follow games with live text
- your engagement will be stronger for an actual PL match than a video game where you’re trying to get through a season
Another option is to just do it as a 10 minute recap but post on a website with zero spoilers, so people can view it “as live”
Before I had kids I used to turn my phone off on a Saturday afternoon and watch our full game “as live” when it came on sky at about 10pm. I find it really annoying that the only television providers with full game replay now only have them 24 hours later. 
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Watching it play out like that real-time over 90 minutes would be a bit slow. The thing about watching your team play on CM2 was that a match only took about ten minutes. (Wonder if many people chose the real-time option? Was that even a thing then?)
But if it was a choice of that or a dodgy stream, I think I would choose that.
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rather than wanting my computer games to more closely resemble televised football, I'm starting to wonder if it should be the other way around
I've found myself recently listening to a few of our games on the radio, but I find it incredibly stressful because you don't always know who is attacking and who is defending.
I also find it really frustrating to watch live games on TV now, because so much of the action is missed (either due to non playing camera shots or replays) and because you don't know if a VAR check is going to prevent you from celebrating a goal. A TV feed gives the impression of giving you full information about what's happening, but it doesn't actually deliver that. It is MUCH further from being at the game then people tend to think. It's much closer to listening on a radio than actual attendance.
Perhaps the best way to find a balance between building tension and delivering information was the match engine from Championship Manager 2. Perhaps this one:
There was something about how it led you from "nothing is happening" to "danger" to "goal" that respected your emotional readiness. Whereas radio can go straight from "nothing" to goal" and TV can give the impression of "nothing is happening" even if danger is building. A few games last season I just watched the BBC live feed, but that didn't update enough to hold attention.
So here me out for a business idea:
- Provide a feed for an Everton live match
- Using the CM2 match engine
- On a slight delay so that VAR checks get flagged before displaying a goal
- Keep it text based, deliberately retro, like a cross between a Teletext page and a video game
Surely AI can create that based on the output coming from existing news sources?? Just route the BBC live text into a CM2 match engine and display.
I honestly think that I would prefer that to live TV or a radio. Previous Message
With Proton, obviously. Unity games usually run pretty well and game to me appears like there's nothing that should cause issues.
Funny how the match engine demo video includes a team in blue with Stake as their sponsor...
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