The below provides an outline on how to better read an exported Courtside game file.
The file will be exported into an xml file and the following website can be used to display the data in a cleaner and more plain text way.
- You can either upload or copy and paste the data directly.
Website: https://www.freeformatter.com/xml-formatter.html
After this has been converted it will display as a long block of text that is formatted into sections.
Below is a breakdown of each section and what it refers to:
The first second provides the following information:
- device information
- courtside version
- competition information (like date, venues and comp name)
The second set of information is the name of the official(s) that confirmed the game and what code was used.
Next displays the information related to each player selected within the game for each team
- it only lists their name, date of birth, gender, shirt number
The last bit is the play by play information for each player in terms what action was assigned to each player (score, foul etc) and team.
